[alsa-devel] Wierdness in alsa-driver configure script
Jaroslav Kysela
perex at perex.cz
Thu Feb 11 08:43:40 CET 2010
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote:
> checking for kernel version... 2.6.28-17-generic
> checking for GCC version... ./configure: eval: line 5540: syntax error
> near unexpected token `)'
> ./configure: eval: line 5540: `my_compiler_version=4.3.3-5ubuntu4)'
> Kernel compiler: Used compiler: gcc (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) 4.3.3
>
>
> gcc --version gives (yes, it is ugly!):
> gcc (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) 4.3.3
> Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> The following change works for this particular case, but perhaps there
> is a better answer?
>
> --- a/configure.in
> +++ b/configure.in
> @@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([CHECK_COMPILER], [
> ;;
> [[0-9]].[[0-9]]*)
> if test -z "$ac_compiler_version"; then
> - ac_compiler_version="$i"
> + ac_compiler_version=`echo $i | sed -e
> 's|[[^0-9]]*\([[0-9.]]\+\).*$|\1|'`
> fi
> ;;
> esac
I applied this change to the alsa-driver git tree. The compiler check is
not so critical these days.
Jaroslav
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Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc.
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