Re: [PATCH] test-lib.sh: use awk instead of expr for a POSIX non integer check

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 13, 2022, 02:20 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqtuc2lhis.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <220312.86o82bfo7x.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

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> But probably better is to just amend that to call it as "test-tool libc
> is-glibc-2.34-or-newer" or whatever. Then just do:
>
> 	if (__GLIBC__ > 2 || (__GLIBC__ == 2 && 34 >= __GLIBC_MINOR__))
> 		return 0;
> 	return 1;

Yuck. Then we'd have yet another libc-is-glibc-2.36-or-newer option, too, in the future?

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