On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 03:57:44PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote: > >> > Oops, I missed the trailing '.' in the regex there, and it probably >> > needs double-quotes in case the inner expr fails to match anything. >> >> Which is messy considering the double quotes already surrounding >> $(uname_R). Suggestions? > > The shell should do the right thing with nested quotes inside backticks. > So just (untested): > > $(shell expr "`expr "$(uname_R)" : '\([0-9][0-9]*\.\)'`" '>=' 11),1) Right. Temporary brain derailment on my part. >> I suppose the combination of `...` with built-in 'test' and built-in >> 'echo' would be the most efficient choice. Do you want it re-rolled? > > I can live with it either way. It's all pretty horrible and ugly; the > saving grace is that we hopefully never have to touch that line again. I'll re-roll, taking advantage of `...` and (typically, builtin) 'test' and 'echo'. This: $(shell test "`expr "$(uname_R)" : '\([0-9][0-9]*\)\.'`" -ge 11 && echo 1) Already tested on OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) and 10.5 (Leopard). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html