Re: [PATCHES] vcbuild bison check - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: [PATCHES] vcbuild bison check
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Msg-id 4523DD65.9060106@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: [PATCHES] vcbuild bison check  ("Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>)
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>> 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...
>
>   

Won't it just do a string comparison, then? That's probably good enough 
in this instance.

cheers

andrew


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