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Subject: Re: [PATCH xtables-addons] build: fix configure compatiblity with
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Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 18:01:31 +0200 (CEST)
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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.