Re: recent patch breaks the build ?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 17, 2005, 11:15 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511171213370.29989@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7voe4jy36p.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Nick Hengeveld <nickh@reactrix.com> writes:
> 
> > Assuming --vernum does work, is there a reasonable/portable way to
> > compare two hex values like 070801?
> 
> I would assume that it is always 6 lowercase hexdigits %06x when
> supported, or showing nothing to stdout for ancient ones.
> 
> A horrible but probably portable way would be:
> 
> 	case `(echo 070801; curl-config --vernum) 2>/dev/null |
>         	sort -r | sed -ne 2p` in
> 	070801)
>         	echo Happy ;;
>         *)
>         	echo Sad ;;
> 	esac

Horrible to read, but actually portable (and can be produced by a small script):

case "$NUMBER" in 07080[1-9] | \ 0708[1-9]? | \ 0709?? | \ 07[1-9]??? | \ 0[8-9]???? | \ [1-9]?????) echo "Yes";; *) echo "No";; esac

Ciao, Dscho