[cairo] Invoking autogen.sh in non-english locales

[James Henstridge]

On 14/08/04 14:36, Carl Worth wrote:

>On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 10:29:29 +0200, Jost Boekemeier wrote:
>  
>
>>Your string->number conversion hacks do not work in non-english locales:
>>
>>To avoid this problem add a
>>
>>  LANG=C
>>    
>>
>
>Thanks for the report and for a fix.
>
>I found this problem in cairo/autogen.sh and committed it. Did you see
>it anywhere else?
>
>Meanwhile, I'm not sure if the version checks are properly set at the
>minimum working version. For example, a user of Mac OS X just reported
>that the version checks fail with the dfault automake there (1.6.3?). Is
>anyone in a position to check if that was a false negative, and if so,
>to back up automake_min_version? Thanks.
>  
>
If you want more full featured checks, you may as well swipe the 
gnome-autogen.sh script from gnome-common. You could then rewrite the 
cairo autogen script like this:

    #!/bin/sh
    srcdir=`dirname $0`
    test -z "$srcdir" && srcdir=.
    PKG_NAME=cairo
    REQUIRED_AUTOMAKE_VERSION=1.7
    REQUIRED_AUTOCONF_VERSION=2.54
    REQUIRED_LIBTOOL_VERSION=1.4
    . gnome-autogen.sh


The version checks gnome-autogen.sh does don't rely on the locale's 
decimal separator, so shouldn't suffer from the problem Jost mentioned 
(they are also capable of performing version checks with more than two 
components).

James.

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