[Xastir-dev] Configure's test for "gv"

[J. Lance Cotton]

on 1/12/2007 3:45 PM Tom Russo said the following:
> Unless we're going to drop support for the old style GV options (potentially
> shutting some folks out who haven't upgraded in years), we'll need to run
> gv --version in order to figure the version out.  You could, of course,
> always do something like "test for existence of gv, then run it to test 
> version, and if it doesn't run assume it's the new version" or something like 
> that.  
> 

Not as efficient, but what about just testing for existence of 'gv' and run 
gv --version at runtime before each time it is called.

gv is only used for printing, right? Shouldn't be too bad to make two calls.

-Lance

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