Seeding from the 1.2 tree.

macros/check_version.m4

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+dnl AC_CHECK_VERSION(UPPER, lower, pretty, version)
+dnl Copyright (c) David Walluck 1999-2000
+dnl All rights reserved.
+dnl Parts of this taken from mc configure script.
+dnl Released under the GPLv2.
+
+AC_DEFUN(AC_CHECK_VERSION,
+[ AC_CACHE_CHECK(for $3 version, ac_cv_$3_version,
+[ $1_version="unknown"
+cat > conftest.$ac_ext <<EOF
+[#]line __oline__ "configure"
+#include "confdefs.h"
+#include <$2.h>
+#undef VERSION
+VERSION:$1_VERSION
+EOF
+  if (eval "$ac_cpp conftest.$ac_ext") 2>&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD([]) | egrep "VERSION:" >conftest.out 2>&1; then
+changequote(,)dnl
+    $2_version="`cat conftest.out | sed -e 's/^[^"]*"//' -e 's/".*//'`"
+changequote([,])dnl
+  fi
+  rm -rf conftest*
+  ac_cv_$3_version="$$2_version"
+])])