Re: makeicecat fails for a miscalculation of the version of rename

[chippy]

On Fri, 2023-01-20 at 04:15 -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> chippy via help-gnuzilla <help-gnuzilla@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Hi, I tried to build Icecat with the latest changes on makeicecat
> > and I
> > noticed that the script wrongly fails at line 148.
> > 
> > It's about the check of the version of perl-rename. It tries to
> > match
> > higher major version and a higher minor version, which will fail
> > when
> > going from say 1.9 to 2.0.
> 
> Indeed.  Thanks very much for letting us know.
> 
> > If everyone is busy, I can spend some time on this, as I really
> > care
> > for Icecat.
> 
> I've attached a patch below that I hope will fix this problem.
> Would you like to test it and let us know if it works for you?
> 
>      Regards,
>        Mark
> 
I tried the patch and it works in my case, thanks
Chippy