wrong regular expressions in the bootstrap script

[SharkCZ]

I have problems when compiling CB on Fedora Development which contains autoconf 2.61. It ends with

+ ./bootstrap
Autoconf 2.50 or above is required. Aborting build...

The reason is a wrong regular expression when checking for the version. The current expression '1.*|2.[0-4]' checks for the following strings
- "1" and zero!!! or more occurences of any character => 2.61 has a match
- "2" and any character and a number between 0 and 4
A point must be checked with '\.' and not with '.'

The secure variant could be '1\.[0-9]+|2\.[0-4]', which will check for version 1.x and 2.0 till 2.4. Similar expression are needed for automake (1\.[0-6]) and libtool (1\.[0-3]) checks.

[afb]

Fixed, revision 3275. Thanks for catching this!

[SharkCZ]

Automake 1.10 was born one month ago and the current check is wrong and the build is crashing on Fedora Core Development. The expression must be updated again :-)
I cannot find out a positive check that will do >= 1.7, so easier could be a negative one "egrep -v '1\.[7-9]|1\.[1-9][0-9]'". Hopefully is this correct.

[afb]

Fixed, revision 3310. Added a $, to match 1.1 but not 1.10

[SharkCZ]

So you expect the version string is on the end of line. That is a variant too.

[afb]

Since we cut it out from the --version, it should work OK. (it did for me)

Let me know if it doesn't, or when next bleeding edge FC version arrives :-)

[SharkCZ]

Hopefully this solution will last some time ;-)

[knue]

Since I have autoconf 2.61 installed the regular expressions does not work for me neither. I get
Autoconf 2.50 or above is required. Aborting build...
too.

autoconf --version 2>&1|head -n 1|egrep '1.*|2.[0-4]'
gives me:
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61

Perhaps it should be replaced with:
autoconf --version 2>&1|head -n 1|egrep '1.+|2.[0-4]'
This works for me.

[afb]

Please update your sources from SVN.

[knue]

I am at revision 3204.

[mandrav]

I am at revision 3204.

Current HEAD is revision 3327...

[knue]

k, thx. I had problems with svn.