[vlc-devel] [PATCH 2/3] tools: detect the tool version in stdout as well

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le tiistaina 18. lokakuuta 2016, 13.03.17 EEST Steve Lhomme a écrit :
> on msys some tools give their versions in stdout instead of stderr

I don´t see why that needs a patch, or how it explains it.

2>&1 redirects stderr to stdout, so it should not matter which one the program 
outputs to.

> ---
>  extras/tools/bootstrap | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/extras/tools/bootstrap b/extras/tools/bootstrap
> index 01a15e6..e6d74ee 100755
> --- a/extras/tools/bootstrap
> +++ b/extras/tools/bootstrap
> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ fi
>  }
> 
>  check() {
> -if ! $1 --version >/dev/null 2>&1 && ! $1 -version >/dev/null 2>&1
> +if ! $1 --version >/dev/null 2>&1 && ! $1 -version >/dev/null 2>&1 && ! $1
> --version 2>/dev/null then
>      echo "$1 not found"
>      NEEDED="$NEEDED .$1"


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Rémi Denis-Courmont
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