fix(configure): use '/dev/null' to check 'cmp', use 'sed' to compare versions (#986)

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 7335523fa..ac84f61a3 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ if ! grep $pat $srcdir/configure > /dev/null 2>&1; then
   exit 1
 fi
 
-if ! `cmp --help > /dev/null 2>&1`; then
+if ! `cmp /dev/null /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1`; then
   echo "Sorry, you need 'cmp' to configure GHDL.";
   exit 1
 fi
@@ -191,8 +191,8 @@ fi
 # Check the version of libghdl is correct.
 if [ "$enable_libghdl" = true ]; then
     libghdl_version="$srcdir/python/libghdl/version.py"
-    # Compare a fixed number of bytes (-n), to avoid false positives due to LF/CRLF mismatch.
-    if ! echo "__version__ = '${ghdl_version}'" | cmp -n "${#ghdl_version}" "$libghdl_version" ; then
+    # Extract content between sinlge quotes in version.py, to avoid false positives due to LF/CRLF mismatch.
+    if [ "$ghdl_version" != "`sed "s/.*'\(.*\)'.*/\1/g" $libghdl_version`" ]; then
       echo "Sorry, the version of $libghdl_version is not correct"
       echo "update the version to: $ghdl_version"
       echo "or use --disable-libghdl"