"James Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Doesn't the previous code actually produce the _maximum_ version (that > is, with sort .. | tail -1)?
Yes, and thanks for catching that. Hmm, nobody has used this since December 30? Anyway, I installed this: 2007-01-04 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * gnulib-tool (autoconf_minversion): Take the maximum version number found, not the minimum. Problem reported by James Youngman. --- gnulib-tool 3 Jan 2007 12:19:04 -0000 1.207 +++ gnulib-tool 4 Jan 2007 18:10:33 -0000 @@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ func_ln_if_changed () if test -n "$prereqs"; then autoconf_minversion=` for version in $prereqs; do echo $version; done | - LC_ALL=C sort -nu | sed 1q + LC_ALL=C sort -nru | sed 1q ` fi fi