* Stephen Montgomery-Smith <step...@missouri.edu> [2012-06-21 19:59]:
> I was looking at the Makefile, and it had some comments asking for
> suggestions for how to extract the version numbers of octave.
>
> How about:
>
> majorversion := $(shell mkoctfile --version 2>&1 \
> | awk -F '[. ]' '{print $$3}')
> minorversion := $(shell mkoctfile --version 2>&1 \
> | awk -F '[. ]' '{print $$4}')
> microversion := $(shell mkoctfile --version 2>&1 \
> | awk -F '[. ]' '{print $$5}')
>
> The backslashes are there only because I can't fit it all on one line
> with my email client.
>
> Or:
>
> majorversion := $(word 3,$(shell mkoctfile --version 2>&1 \
> | sed 's/\./ /g'))
> minorversion := $(word 4,$(shell mkoctfile --version 2>&1 \
> | sed 's/\./ /g'))
> microversion := $(word 5,$(shell mkoctfile --version 2>&1 \
> | sed 's/\./ /g'))
Your proposed code is cleaner than the original one, even though there is
no need to fix things that are not broken. At any rate, please, avoid
the solution that use awk, since this would introduce an extra
build-dependency in systems like Debian.
Rafael
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