When checking GDB versions we have to tolerate all sorts of random distro extensions to the version string. While we already attempt to do some of that before we call version_ge is makes sense to try and regularise the first input by stripping extraneous -'s. While we at it convert the old-style shell quoting into a cleaner form t shut up my editors linter lest it confuse me by underlining the whole line.
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <[email protected]> Tested-by: Thomas Huth <[email protected]> --- configure | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/configure b/configure index e85d6baf8f..432b83fadf 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -198,8 +198,8 @@ has() { } version_ge () { - local_ver1=`echo $1 | tr . ' '` - local_ver2=`echo $2 | tr . ' '` + local_ver1=$(expr "$1" : '\([0-9.]*\)' | tr . ' ') + local_ver2=$(echo "$2" | tr . ' ') while true; do set x $local_ver1 local_first=${2-0} -- 2.20.1
