On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 09:40:48AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 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)
I accidentally left out this line of context from the original post:
doesn't make it stop. What am I doing wrong?
> > 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.
As I understand it, AC_PREREQ does succeed ("doesn't make it stop") on the OP's
system as well.
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