[PATCH] do not use sed for version date processing but rather cut and tr

Matthias Kilian kili at outback.escape.de
Mon Apr 18 23:59:51 CEST 2011


Based on an idea from Karel Gardas, who had troubles with the original
sed version (which didn't work with /usr/bin/sed on Solaris).
---
 aclocal.m4 |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/aclocal.m4 b/aclocal.m4
index 0e72d22..ed3d006 100644
--- a/aclocal.m4
+++ b/aclocal.m4
@@ -1116,7 +1116,7 @@ if test "$RELEASE" = "NO"; then
         AC_MSG_RESULT(given $PACKAGE_VERSION)
     elif test -d .git; then
         changequote(, )dnl
-        ver_date=`git log -n 1 --date=short --pretty=format:%ci | sed "s/^.*\([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\)-\([0-9][0-9]\)-\([0-9][0-9]\).*$/\1\2\3/"`
+        ver_date=`git log -n 1 --date=short --pretty=format:%ci | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | tr -d -`
         if echo $ver_date | grep '^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]$' 2>&1 >/dev/null; then true; else
         changequote([, ])dnl
                 AC_MSG_ERROR([failed to detect version date: check that git is in your path])
-- 
1.7.3.5


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