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diff --git a/gdb/configure b/gdb/configure
index 5a6d0be..5ee5ce6 100755
--- a/gdb/configure
+++ b/gdb/configure
@@ -10658,8 +10658,23 @@ fi
have_libpython=no
if test "${have_python_config}" = yes; then
+ # Determine the Python version by extracting "-lpython<version>"
+ # part of the python_libs. <version> is usually X.Y with X and Y
+ # being decimal numbers, but can also be XY (seen on Windows).
+ #
+ # The extraction is performed using sed with a regular expression.
+ # Initially, the regexp used was using the '?' quantifier to make
+ # the dot in the version number optional. Unfortunately, this
+ # does not work with non-GNU versions of sed because, because of
+ # what looks like a limitation (the '?' quantifier does not work
+ # with back-references). We work around this limitation by using
+ # the '*' quantifier instead. It means that, in theory, we might
+ # match unexpected version strings such as "-lpython2..7", but
+ # this seems unlikely in practice. And even if that happens,
+ # an error will be triggered later on, when checking that version
+ # number.
python_version=`echo " ${python_libs} " \
- | sed -e 's,^.* -l\(python[0-9]*[.]\?[0-9]*\).*$,\1,'`
+ | sed -e 's,^.* -l\(python[0-9]*[.]*[0-9]*\).*$,\1,'`
case "${python_version}" in
python*)