Hi Zack,
> Fixed in commit 52888c93. I plan to merge the branch to master in the next
> few days.
Thanks. I'm testing the current 'master' (commit
9af20f0af70061f633aa50294ed74fd93210e307)
with various versions of 'autopoint'.
My test case is
$ PATH=<directory containing autopoint of the given version>:$PATH
$ tar xf gnujump_1.0.8.orig.tar.gz
$ cd gnujump-1.0.8
$ autoreconf -f -i -v
> >> The autopoint versions that should match are:
> >> - 0.23.x with x >= 2
> >> - 0.24.x with x >= 2
> >> - 0.25.x with x >= 1
> >> - 0.26 and newer.
Good:
- With 0.23, 0.23.1, autoreconf reports "not running autopoint because it is
too old"
- With 0.23.2, autoreconf reports "running: autopoint --force"
- With 0.24, 0.24.1, autoreconf reports "not running autopoint because it is
too old"
- With 0.24.2, autoreconf reports "running: autopoint --force"
- With 0.25, autoreconf reports "not running autopoint because it is too old"
- With 0.25.1, autoreconf reports "running: autopoint --force"
BROKEN:
- With 0.26, autoreconf reports "not running autopoint because it is too old"
- With 1.0, autoreconf reports "not running autopoint because it is too old"
The reason is that the line
if ($ap_ver[0] =~ /^ .*?\) \s+ (\d+) \. (\d+) (?:\.(\d+)) /x)
apparently matches
"PROGRAM_NAME (GNU PACKAGE_NAME) MAJ.MIN.PTC"
but it does not match
"PROGRAM_NAME (GNU PACKAGE_NAME) MAJ.MIN"
The attached patch fixes it.
>From 0148f0772537943abdb9e8eba5ac65a13aaae9c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruno Haible <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:48:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] autoreconf: Fix recognition of autopoint versions 0.26 or
newer.
* bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): In the regex that
extracts the version number components from `autopoint --version`, mark
the third component as optional.
---
bin/autoreconf.in | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/bin/autoreconf.in b/bin/autoreconf.in
index b703dd02..65570cf8 100644
--- a/bin/autoreconf.in
+++ b/bin/autoreconf.in
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ sub autoreconf_current_directory ($)
# "PROGRAM_NAME (GNU PACKAGE_NAME) MAJ.MIN[.PTC][ETC]"
# where MAJ, MIN, and PTC are sequences of digits,
# and [...] indicates an optional component.
- if ($ap_ver[0] =~ /^ .*?\) \s+ (\d+) \. (\d+) (?:\.(\d+)) /x)
+ if ($ap_ver[0] =~ /^ .*?\) \s+ (\d+) \. (\d+) (?:\.(\d+))? /x)
{
my $maj = $1;
my $min = $2;
--
2.52.0
