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 <rhc@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 <phhargrove@lbl.gov> wrote:

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Larry Baker <baker@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

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