Tomi Ollila : > On Tue, Aug 21 2012, Ben Gamari wrote: > >> Eh? 1.2.6 is the first Xapian release to have Compactor exposed in the >> public API. > > Presuming that those variables are always numeric the comparison could be: > > if [ ${xapian_major_version} -gt 1 ] || > [ ${xapian_major_version} -eq 1 -a ${xapian_minor_version} -gt 2 ] || > [ ${xapian_major_version} -eq 1 -a ${xapian_minor_version} -eq 2 -a \ > ${xapian_subminor_version} -ge 6 ]; then > > (I could not figure out anything shorter and/or cleaner) Try: case "${xapian_version}" in 0.*|1.[01].*|1.2.[0-5]) ;; *) ... ;; esac Kim Minh.