Additionally, Solaris m4 doesn't support --version either (my test below was unintentionally using /usr/gnu/bin/m4). So even if *BSD isn't a supported target, I know Solaris is.
-Paul On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel > -- 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
