Re: module request: comparing version numbers

[Sam Steingold]

On 6/17/10, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 06/17/2010 11:33 AM, Sam Steingold wrote:
>  > some gnulib modules (e.g., gnulib/m4/libunistring-base.m4) have
>  > facilities for comparing version numbers, e.g., 1.5.22 with 2.2.8.
>  > it would be nice if there were a module (say, version-compare) which
>  > would export such a facility.
>  > e.g., @VERSION_COMPARE@ would expand to
>  > version_compare() {
>  >   ...
>  > }
>  > which would return 0 or 1 depending on whether $1 is smaller than $2.
>
> Are you talking about version comparisons at m4 time (if so, is
>  m4_version_compare from autoconf adequate?), at shell time (if so, is
>  AS_VERSION_COMPARE from autoconf adequate?), or in your executable (if
>  so, is either the strverscmp or filevercmp module adequate?).

at shell time, but not in configure.
I have a shell file foo.in which is processed by configure using
AC_CONFIG_FILES, and I want to be able to compare versions there.

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Sam Steingold <http://sds.podval.org>