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.


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