Re: Unparsable gcc version string? [WAS: lily 1.4.15]

[Josip Rodin]

On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 12:53:17PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> >> AAARG!  How is anyone (being a humble configure script) supposed to
> >> pick `3.1.1<SPACE>20020606' to be the version string from that?
> >
> > Why do you need the date, anyway? Just "3.1.1" should be enough
> 
> Yes, that's what I mean.  We just need:
> 
>    gcc --version
>    3.1.1

Well, if gcc upstream switched to printing both "gcc " and the version
afterwards, you can just use $2.

-- 
     2. That which causes joy or happiness.