Greater than string comparison in a Makefile

Question

How do I express the following logic in a Makefile?

if $(XORG_VERSION) > \"7.7\"
   
fi

Conditional Parts of Makefi

Answer 1

Using shell commands, as mentioned in the other answers, should suffice for most use cases:

if [ 1 -gt 0 ]; then \
    #do something \
fi

However, if you, like me, want to use greater-than comparison in order to then set a make variable via make's $(eval) command, then you will find that attempting to do so using the other answer's model:

if [ 1 -gt 0 ]; then \
    $(eval FOO := value) \
fi

raises an error:

if [ 1 -gt 0 ]; then  fi;
/bin/bash: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'
/bin/bash: -c: line 0: `if [ 1 -gt 0 ]; then  fi;'
make: *** [clean] Error 2```

I found a way how to sort out that problem and posted it as a solution to this other question. I hope someone finds it helpful!