Re: [PATCHES] vcbuild bison check

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Magnus Hagander [mailto:mha@sollentuna.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 6:01 PM
> To: Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD
> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] vcbuild bison check
>
> > > Ok. So what you want is something that checks that it's
> > > >=1.875 but specifically not 2.1?
> > >
> > > Might be a while before I can submit an updated patch for that,
> > may
> > > need to rewrite the whole script in perl to do that :-( .bat
> > files are
> > > horribly limited in what they can do.
> >
> > Since we are on NT or higher you could use extensions:
> > IF %bversion% GEQ 1.875 IF %bversion% NEQ 2.1 goto use_bison
> > http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntif.html
>
> I thought that only worked if your locale was set to
> something that has dot as decimal separator. Mine has comma,
> as have many others...

Um, I think it does a string compare because point or comma is no
decimal digit,
but that would imho also be sufficient.
My locale is German, so my decimal sep should also be a comma, and it
worked
for the mentioned versions.

Andreas