[jira] [Created] (THRIFT-4232) ./configure does bad ant version check

["David Woodward (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

David Woodward created THRIFT-4232:
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             Summary: ./configure does bad ant version check
                 Key: THRIFT-4232
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-4232
             Project: Thrift
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Build Process
    Affects Versions: 0.10.0
         Environment: OSX 10.12.5, running ant 1.10.1
            Reporter: David Woodward


On line 18869 of the configure script, it checks that the ant version is >= 1.7. It uses some kind of string comparison. This breaks for my current ant version (1.10). It seems to think that 1.10 is not >= 1.7. I think this is because it's comparing strings without taking into account what the strings actually mean. Something like this might be a possible patch:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4023830/how-compare-two-strings-in-dot-separated-version-format-in-bash

This should be fixed because it means that people with new ant versions can't build the java thrift library.

Also it should be checked to see if other parts of the configure process are using these kinds of faulty version checks.



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