APPROVE COMMIT 21.5 Note reply-to: xemacs-patches. Raymond Toy writes: No, it appears I did. (Have I mentioned recently that it was a really big mistake to use any VCS besides git?) Thanks for following up so patiently! It's easy enough to do a plain sed version. Patch attached. Lightly tested (known to succeed with makeinfo 4.13 on my system, and fail with appropriate warning for makeinfo 4.8 with 4.13 mv'ed away temporarily). Steve diff -r 52b9fe8f44c0 ChangeLog --- a/ChangeLog Wed Jul 10 14:32:02 2013 +0100 +++ b/ChangeLog Sun Jul 28 02:41:25 2013 +0900 ＠＠ -1,3 +1,9 ＠＠ +2013-07-28 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; + + * configure.ac (makeinfo): + Use basic regexp. Avoid autoconf errors on empty version strings. + Report version found if insufficient. Lightly tested. + 2013-06-25 Jerry James <james(a)xemacs.org&gt; * INSTALL: Update required makeinfo version. diff -r 52b9fe8f44c0 configure --- a/configure Wed Jul 10 14:32:02 2013 +0100 +++ b/configure Sun Jul 28 02:41:25 2013 +0900 ＠＠ -10564,10 +10564,10 ＠＠ $as_echo_n "checking for makeinfo >= 4.12... " >&6; } MAKEINFO= for prog in `which -a makeinfo`; do - mi_verstr=`$prog --version | sed -rn '1s/.*+[[:blank:]]([^[:blank:]]+)$/\1/p'` + mi_verstr=`$prog --version | sed -n '1s/^.* \([0-9][0-9]*\.[0-9][0-9]*\)$/\1/p'` mi_major=`echo $mi_verstr | cut -d. -f1` mi_minor=`echo $mi_verstr | cut -d. -f2` - if test $mi_major -gt 4 || ( test $mi_major -eq 4 && test $mi_minor -gt 11 ); + if test "$mi_major" -gt 4 || ( test "$mi_major" -eq 4 && test "$mi_minor" -gt 11 ); then MAKEINFO=$prog break ＠＠ -10576,8 +10576,8 ＠＠ if test -z $MAKEINFO; then { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5 $as_echo "no" >&6; } - { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: WARNING: Makeinfo 4.12 or later required to build info files." >&5 -$as_echo "$as_me: WARNING: Makeinfo 4.12 or later required to build info files." >&2;} + { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: WARNING: Found Makeinfo $mi_verstr. 4.12 or later required." >&5 +$as_echo "$as_me: WARNING: Found Makeinfo $mi_verstr. 4.12 or later required." >&2;} else { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: yes" >&5 $as_echo "yes" >&6; } diff -r 52b9fe8f44c0 configure.ac --- a/configure.ac Wed Jul 10 14:32:02 2013 +0100 +++ b/configure.ac Sun Jul 28 02:41:25 2013 +0900 ＠＠ -2590,10 +2590,10 ＠＠ AC_MSG_CHECKING([for makeinfo >= 4.12]) MAKEINFO= for prog in `which -a makeinfo`; do - mi_verstr=[`$prog --version | sed -rn '1s/.*+[[:blank:]]([^[:blank:]]+)$/\1/p'`] + mi_verstr=[`$prog --version | sed -n '1s/^.* \([0-9][0-9]*\.[0-9][0-9]*\)$/\1/p'`] mi_major=`echo $mi_verstr | cut -d. -f1` mi_minor=`echo $mi_verstr | cut -d. -f2` - if test $mi_major -gt 4 || ( test $mi_major -eq 4 && test $mi_minor -gt 11 ); + if test "$mi_major" -gt 4 || ( test "$mi_major" -eq 4 && test "$mi_minor" -gt 11 ); then MAKEINFO=$prog break ＠＠ -2601,7 +2601,7 ＠＠ done if test -z $MAKEINFO; then AC_MSG_RESULT([no]) - AC_MSG_WARN([Makeinfo 4.12 or later required to build info files.]) + AC_MSG_WARN([Found Makeinfo $mi_verstr. 4.12 or later required.]) else AC_MSG_RESULT([yes]) fi _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Patches mailing list XEmacs-Patches(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-patches