Ick - usually tools support some kind of version option. :-( I'll give Nathan a chance to work on this tonight. If we can't resolve the problem, I'll revert the m4 check as well.
On Nov 14, 2012, at 5:41 PM, Paul Hargrove <phhargr...@lbl.gov> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Larry Baker <ba...@usgs.gov> wrote: > m4 --version | sed -n -E -e > '1s/^.*[^A-Za-z0-9_-]?([0-9]+[.][0-9]+[.][0-9]+)[^A-Za-z0-9_-]?.*$/\1/p' > > > There are STILL problems with this approach as it is TWICE specific to GNU > software: > > 1) M4 on OpenBSD (maybe others) doesn't support a "--version" flag: > $ m4 --version | sed -n -E -e > '1s/^.*[^A-Za-z0-9_-]?([0-9]+[.][0-9]+[.][0-9]+)[^A-Za-z0-9_-]?.*$/\1/p' > m4: unknown option -- - > usage: m4 [-gPs] [-Dname[=value]] [-d flags] [-I dirname] [-o filename] > [-t macro] [-Uname] [file ...] > > 2) sed on Solaris (maybe others) doesn't support a "-E" flag: > $ m4 --version | sed -n -E -e > '1s/^.*[^A-Za-z0-9_-]?([0-9]+[.][0-9]+[.][0-9]+)[^A-Za-z0-9_-]?.*$/\1/p' > /bin/sed: illegal option -- E > > -Paul > > -- > Paul H. Hargrove phhargr...@lbl.gov > Future Technologies Group > Computer and Data Sciences Department Tel: +1-510-495-2352 > Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Fax: +1-510-486-6900 > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel
