Parse version numbers prefixed with text (egcs does that, even with
-dumpversion).
PR: 203, part 1
diff --git a/config b/config
index 972cdb7..3e9af76 100755
--- a/config
+++ b/config
@@ -393,6 +393,9 @@
GCCVER=`(gcc -dumpversion) 2>/dev/null`
if [ "$GCCVER" != "" ]; then
CC=gcc
+ # then strip off whatever prefix egcs prepends the number with...
+ # Hopefully, this will work for any future prefixes as well.
+ GCCVER=`echo $GCCVER | sed 's/^[a-zA-Z]*\-//'`
# Since gcc 3.1 gcc --version behaviour has changed. gcc -dumpversion
# does give us what we want though, so we use that. We just just the
# major and minor version numbers.
