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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
To: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH xtables-addons] build: fix configure compatiblity with POSIX shells
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 18:01:31 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.20.1604031800440.5788@nerf40.vanv.qr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57010529.3030404@universe-factory.net>


On Sunday 2016-04-03 13:57, Matthias Schiffer wrote:
>> To test its resilience against silly krel strings (not exactly unheard of),
>> let's pretend that
>> 
>> 	krel="4x.6.0"
>> 
>> checking kernel version that we will build against... ./configure: line
>> 11957: 4x: value too great for base (error toke
>> n is "4x")
>> ./configure: line 8: printf %s\n: command not found
>
>Weird, what version/variant of awk are you using (or were you just changing
>the value of krel in an artificial test and dropped the awk call
>altogether)? krel should be cut off at the first character not in the set
>[0-9.], so krel would be "4" and version 4.0.0.0 should result.

Aha; yes, I had dropped awk altogether.

      reply	other threads:[~2016-04-03 16:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-01 20:35 [PATCH xtables-addons] build: fix configure compatiblity with POSIX shells Matthias Schiffer
2016-04-03 10:11 ` Jan Engelhardt
2016-04-03 11:57   ` Matthias Schiffer
2016-04-03 16:01     ` Jan Engelhardt [this message]

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