--- configure.orig	Sun Apr  6 21:29:36 2003
+++ configure	Sun Apr  6 21:30:43 2003
@@ -4316,7 +4316,7 @@
 
 version=`${RECODE} --version | head -n 1 | cut -f 3 -d' '`
 
-if test ${version} != "3.5" ; then
+if test ${version} >= "3.5" ; then
   { echo "configure: error: Please check that your version of GNU Recode is 3.5" 1>&2; exit 1; }
 fi