[Chicken-users] --exact-version

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Peter Busser wrote:

Hi!

  

So, I need to extract the Version and Build numbers from the Chicken 
banner.  The banner as given by "chicken -version" is:
    

I could be wrong, but wouldn't it make more sense to add a command line switch
which only prints the exact version number?
  

I agree, but I'll leave it to Felix.  I learned how to do regexps in CMake and my approach works now.  For flag nomenclature, I note that Darcs uses --exact-version.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every