bug#29178: Failure to build automake > 11

[Mathieu Lirzin]

Hello Thomas,

Thomas Koenig <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 06.11.2017 um 22:14 schrieb carl hansen:
>> On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Thomas Koenig <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> in trying to narrow down a build failure of gcc, see
>>>
>>> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82856
>>>
>>> I tried to build a newer version of automake than 1-11.6
>>> (which gcc is currently locked at). All builds failed with
>>>
>>>    GEN      doc/automake-1.13.1
>>
>>
>> your bug is only with recent versions of perl which require stricter quoting.
>>
>> latest automake is 1.15.1
>
> The latest version of automake shows the same error on my system:
>
> address@hidden:~/Downloads/automake-1.15> make
>   GEN      bin/automake
>   GEN      bin/aclocal
>   GEN      t/ax/shell-no-trail-bslash
>   GEN      t/ax/cc-no-c-o
>   GEN      runtest
>   GEN      doc/aclocal.1
>   GEN      doc/automake.1
>   GEN      lib/Automake/Config.pm
>   GEN      doc/aclocal-1.15.1
>   GEN      doc/automake-1.15.1
> help2man: can't get `--help' info from automake-1.15
> Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
> make: *** [Makefile:3687: doc/automake-1.15.1] Fehler 255

Could you provide your config.log and the output of 'make V=1' and
'bin/automake --help'?

Thanks.

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Mathieu Lirzin
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