bootstrap: fix handling of various perl --version formats

[gnulib.git] / build-aux / bootstrap

diff --git a/build-aux/bootstrap b/build-aux/bootstrap
index 8ac13b2..dd21325 100755 (executable)
--- a/build-aux/bootstrap
+++ b/build-aux/bootstrap
@@ -314,10 +314,20 @@ get_version() {
   $app --version >/dev/null 2>&1 || return 1
 
   $app --version 2>&1 |
-  sed -n 's/[^0-9.]*\([0-9]\{1,\}\.[.a-z0-9-]*\).*/\1/p
+  sed -n '# extract version within line
+          s/.*[v ]\{1,\}\([0-9]\{1,\}\.[.a-z0-9-]*\).*/\1/
           t done
+
+          # extract version at start of line
+          s/^\([0-9]\{1,\}\.[.a-z0-9-]*\).*/\1/
+          t done
+
           d
+
           :done
+          #the following essentially does s/5.005/5.5/
+          s/\.0*\([1-9]\)/.\1/g
+          p
           q'
 }