I had a dream

[Brian Gough]

I have modified the regular expressions to use a 0 if there is no
corresponding part of the version string. That should work for now. 

Christopher R. Gabriel writes:
 >     Brian> Now added, thanks!  I changed the configure.in slightly to
 >     Brian> accommodate the current version number 0.5+. e.g.,
 > 
 >     Brian> GSL_MAJOR=0 GSL_MINOR=5 GSL_MICRO=0
 > 
 >     Brian> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(gsl,"0.5+")
 > 
 >     Christopher> It's fine. I'm testing it right now.
 > 
 > Nope, it's not fine :)) the AM_PATH_GSL macro fails if it don't find a
 > 3 number version. It better to use my solution (IMHO), using
 > $GSL_VERSION as a string concatenation of GSL_MAJOR, _MINOR and
 > _MICRO.
 > 
 > What about a 0.5.1 instead of a 0.5+ ?
 > 
 > -- 
 > Christopher R. Gabriel  - http://www.linux.it/~cgabriel/
 > 
 > FLUG: Functional Lifeform Used for Gratification
 > PLUTO: Positronic Lifeform Used for Troubleshooting and Observation
 >