Re: Readline patch

[Jeroen Dekkers]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 10:13:29PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> On Sunday 30 November 2003 19:36, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> > I think that checking the version of gcc is the best way.
> 
> Generally speaking, using a version number for checking software is a 
> bad idea. If one uses a unreleased version (e.g. by checking it out 
> from a CVS repository), what happens?

Generally speaking, you are right. You should test for features and/or
bugs. But I'm not sure if it's possible to write an easy autoconf test
for this. If it's possible, we should do that of course. But if it
isn't, we should check the version number. AFAIK the gcc CVS version
is just the version of the next release of that branch.

Jeroen Dekkers