On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:49:11 +0100
Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost> wrote:
> Steven M. Bellovin schrieb:
> > Argument "^B^D^A" isn't numeric in numeric lt (<) at - line 1.
>
> Maybe the GNOME developers thought that Perl could compare version
> numbers easily -- I expected that too. The code they are using is:
>
> perl -we 'exit(2.4.1 < 1.875 ? 0 : 1)'; echo $?
>
> The correct code to do that is the following:
>
> perl -we 'exit(v2.4.1 lt v1.1875 ? 0 : 1)'; echo $?
>
> Roland
>
Yes, that looks like it. The attached version of patch-ac lets it
build. Shall I commit it, or is there a better way to do this?
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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