development version does not compile

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Bertrand Roessli
<bertrand.roessli at psi.ch> wrote:
> Yes, no it gets a bit further but I still have an error
>
> mawk -f ./mkcontrib.awk ./contributors.in > contributors.texi-t
> mv contributors.texi-t contributors.texi
> makeinfo -I.. -I. -I./.. ./octave.texi
> ../../run-octave -f -q -H -p . --eval "sparseimages ('gplot', 'eps');"
> error: compare_versions: given version strings are not valid: 4.2. 4.2.4

This looks like it may be related to that report:

https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/2009-January/007762.html

Dmitri.
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