#!/usr/bin/env perl # Try to locate best version of auto* # By Michael Pyne # # Copyright (c) 2005. # This code is public domain. You may use it however you like (including # relicensing). # Emulate the 'which' program. sub which { my $prog = shift; my @paths = split(/:/, $ENV{'PATH'}); for $path (@paths) { return "$path/$prog" if -x "$path/$prog"; } return ""; } # Subroutine to lexicographically compare two version strings, a and b. # If a > b, 1 is returned. # If a == b, 0 is returned. # If a < b, -1 is returned. # # If the strings are of uneven number length then the shorter string is # prepended by enough zeroes to make the two string lengths equal in order to # allow an accurate comparison. Note that the zero-padding only occurs in # between version separators (i.e. 1.6 and 1.10, results in 1.06 vs. 1.10). # Parts of the version ending in -foo (or any other text) are not considered # when doing the compare. (i.e. 2.53a vs 2.53 doesn't end up in 2.53a vs. # 2.053) sub compareVersions { my ($a, $b) = @_; # Split the strings up by '.' (version separator) and start comparing digit # length. my @aParts = split(/\./, $a); my @bParts = split(/\./, $b); # Make the arrays equal in length by adding missing zeroes to the end of the # version. push @aParts, '0' while scalar @aParts < scalar @bParts; push @bParts, '0' while scalar @bParts < scalar @aParts; # Now compare each individual portion. for (my $i = 0; $i < scalar @aParts; ++$i) { # Make sure that any portion that has numbers is contiguous. I'm sure # there's a technique for saving stuff like 2.52a2 but I don't feel # like implementing it. if ($aParts[$i] !~ /^[^\d]*\d+[^\d]*$/ or $bParts[$i] !~ /^[^\d]*\d+[^\d]*$/) { die "Not able to compare $a to $b!\n"; } my ($aDigits) = ($aParts[$i] =~ /(\d+)/); my ($bDigits) = ($bParts[$i] =~ /(\d+)/); # Perl is $MODERATELY_INSULTING_TERM, don't remove the parentheses in # the delta calculation below. my $delta = (length $aDigits) - (length $bDigits); if ($delta < 0) # b is longer { my $replacement = ('0' x (-$delta)) . $aDigits; $aParts[$i] =~ s/$aDigits/$replacement/; } elsif ($delta > 0) # a is longer { my $replacement = ('0' x $delta) . $bDigits; $bParts[$i] =~ s/$bDigits/$replacement/; } } # Arrays now have standardized version components, let's re-merge them # to strings to do the compare. my $newA = join('.', @aParts); my $newB = join('.', @bParts); return 1 if ($newA gt $newB); return -1 if ($newA lt $newB); return 0; } # Subroutine to determine the highest installed version of the given program, # searching from the given paths. sub findBest { my ($program, @paths) = @_; my $best_version_found = '0'; # Deliberately a string. my %versions; my %minimumVersions = ( 'autoconf' => '2.5', 'automake' => '1.6', ); my $sgn; # Used for compareVersions results. # Allow user to use environment variable to override search. return $ENV{uc $program} if $ENV{uc $program}; for $prefix (@paths) { @files = glob "$prefix/$program*"; for $file (@files) { # Don't check non-executable scripts. next unless -x $file; ($version) = $file =~ /$prefix\/$program-?(.*)$/; # Don't check the -wrapper ones (or any other non program one). # The real deal should start with a version number, or have no # suffix at all. next if $version =~ /^[^\d]/; # Special case some programs to make sure it has a minimum version. if (not $version and exists $minimumVersions{$program}) { my $min_version = $minimumVersions{$program}; my $versionOutput = `$program --version 2>/dev/null | head -n 1`; # If we can't run the script to get the version it likely won't work later. next unless $versionOutput; # Use number.number for version (we don't need the excess in general). ($versionOutput) = ($versionOutput =~ /(\d+\.\d+)/); # compareVersions returns -1 if the left argument is less than # the right argument. It can also die for invalid input so # wrap with eval. eval { $sgn = compareVersions($versionOutput, $min_version); }; # $@ would be set if an error was encountered. if ($@ or not $versionOutput or $sgn == -1) { next; } } # If no version suffix then use it in favor of a versioned autotool # since the ever-popular WANT_AUTOFOO should then work (in theory). return $file unless $version; # Emulate 'which', and abort if we've already seen this version. next if exists $versions{$version}; # Save filename of program. $versions{$version} = $file; # Use string comparison so that e.g. 253a will be > 253 but < 254. # See above about the need for eval. eval { $sgn = compareVersions($version, $best_version_found); }; if (not $@ and $sgn == 1) { $best_version_found = $version; } } } return $versions{$best_version_found}; } # Find an appropriate "which" program for later use by the shell script calling # us. sub findWhich { for $candidate ('type -p', 'which', 'type') { $test = `$candidate sh 2>/dev/null`; chomp $test; return $candidate if -x $test; } } # Uses which() to find a program unless the user provided its path in the # environment (the upper case program name is searched). sub findProgram { $suffix = ""; # For use if @_ has only one param. my ($program, $suffix) = @_; return $ENV{uc $program} if $ENV{uc $program}; return which("$program$suffix"); } # SCRIPT STARTS. # Search in path. @paths = split(/:/, $ENV{'PATH'}); # Make sure at least /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin are in this search. unshift @paths, '/usr/local/bin' unless grep $_ eq '/usr/local/bin', @paths; unshift @paths, '/usr/bin' unless grep $_ eq '/usr/bin', @paths; $autoconf = findBest('autoconf', @paths); ($autoconf_suffix) = $autoconf =~ /.*autoconf(.*)$/; # Find matching autoconf companions. $autoheader = findProgram('autoheader', $autoconf_suffix); $autom4te = findProgram('autom4te', $autoconf_suffix); # Get best automake, and look for unsermake to possibly override it. $automake = findBest('automake', @paths); $unsermake = ""; # backward compatible: if $UNSERMAKE points to a path, use it $unsermake = findProgram('unsermake') if (defined($ENV{'UNSERMAKE'}) and $ENV{'UNSERMAKE'} =~ /\//); # new compatible: if it says 'yes', use the one from path $unsermake = which('unsermake') if ($ENV{'UNSERMAKE'} ne 'no'); ($automake_suffix) = $automake =~ /.*automake(.*)$/; # Find matching automake companions. $aclocal = findProgram('aclocal', $automake_suffix); # Use unsermake if we found it. $automake = "$unsermake -c" if ($unsermake and $aclocal); $which = findWhich(); # Make sure we have all of the needed programs. for $i (qw'autoconf autoheader autom4te automake aclocal') { unless(${$i}) { print STDERR "# Unable to find $i!!\n"; } } # Print results in eval-able form. print <