Noah Misch <noah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 05:46:30AM +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote: >> I am running Autoconf 2.61a here. I want to add a version >> guard to my configure.in and surprisingly adding >> >> AC_PREREQ(2.61b) >> >> gives an error (from aclocal already) as expected >> but >> >> AC_PREREQ(2.7) > > AC_PREREQ uses GNU `strverscmp'-style comparisons. > Essentially, the version is two dot-separated integers with an > optional trailing letter. Therefore, 2.61 > 2.10 > 2.9 > 2.7. And therefore one would expect that AC_PREREQ(2.7) would succeed under Autoconf 2.61a. In fact, it does succeed when I test it on my machine here. The OP implies that it fails on his machine. I don't know why it would, though. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
