From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] [gdb/build] Require makeinfo 5.0
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:36:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <867bsszfka.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260204152236.3546595-1-tdevries@suse.de> (message from Tom de Vries on Wed, 4 Feb 2026 16:22:36 +0100)
> From: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 16:22:36 +0100
>
> +major=$("$prog" --version \
> + | grep "GNU texinfo" \
> + | sed 's/^.* \([0-9][0-9]*\)\.[0-9][0-9]*\(\..*\)\?$/\1/')
This requires the second period, but it might not be there. For
example, in the source tree of Texinfo 5.0 (yes, I still have it), I
get
texi2any (GNU texinfo) 5.0+dev
So I think you need to lose the "\." part in "\(\..*\)". That works
both with 7.2.90+nc and with 5.0+dev.
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2026-02-04 15:22 Tom de Vries
2026-02-04 15:36 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2026-02-04 15:44 ` Tom de Vries
2026-02-04 15:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2026-02-17 14:32 ` Tom de Vries
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