I agree that simply using -dumpversion makes more sense, on the assumption that it will always only output the number. "--version" appears to be intended to be human-readable, not machine-readable, and its format may change at any time, as it just did. Why keep adding sed commands that say, "oh, and if it has this in front of it, get rid of that, too"? It might just break again with the next gcc version.
Having said that, I think I'll bow out of the discussion. I'm just an end-user, and may never have to install it again. -Allen Lutz Jaenicke via RT wrote: > > Different solutions have been proposed and I am not sure whether the > currently checked in version will finally work. > I am not sure for how long -dumpversion was supported (at least since > 1994 as was reported) and I strongly consider to use -dumpversion. > Richard: you seem to have a beta version of 3.1.1 around. Will its > output for -dumpversion somehow fit into the model? > > Best regards, > Lutz ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
