autogen.sh - autoconf detection is broken in svn

[cleary]

autogen.sh - autoconf detection is broken in svn Private: (?)
No
When running autogen.sh on sidux (debian sid) I get the following error:

checking for autoconf >= 2.52 ... ./autogen.sh: line 38: [: : integer
expression expected
./autogen.sh: line 38: [: : integer expression expected
Too old (found version )!

`autoconf --version` returns the following string:

autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms
of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

but this is not matched in the autogen.sh script - patch follows:

$ svn diff autogen.sh
Index: autogen.sh
===================================================================
--- autogen.sh (revision 15993)
+++ autogen.sh (working copy)
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
 echo -n "checking for autoconf >= $AUTOCONF_REQUIRED_VERSION ... "
 if (autoconf --version) < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1; then
     VER=`autoconf --version \
- | grep -iw autoconf | sed -n 's/.*
\([0-9.]*\)[-a-z0-9]*$/\1/p'`
+ | grep autoconf | sed -n 's/.* \([0-9.]*\)[-a-z0-9]*$/\1/p'`
     check_version "$VER" "$AUTOCONF_REQUIRED_VERSION"
 else
     echo

[vonHalenbach (lustik)]

Is this Patch still applicable?

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Should be fixed in lp:inkscape r12150