On 06/17/2010 11:33 AM, Sam Steingold wrote:
> Hi,
> 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?). -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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