bug#29178: Failure to build automake > 11

[Thomas Koenig]

Hi Mathieu,

> 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'?

Sure.

address@hidden:~/Downloads/automake-1.15> make V=1
: && /usr/bin/mkdir -p doc && { 
PATH='/home/ig25/Downloads/automake-1.15/t/wrap:'$PATH && export PATH; } 
&& /usr/bin/perl ./doc/help2man --output=doc/automake-1.15.1 automake-1.15
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
address@hidden:~/Downloads/automake-1.15> bin/automake --help
Can't locate Automake/Config.pm in @INC (you may need to install the 
Automake::Config module) (@INC contains: /home/ig25/share/automake-1.15 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26.1 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.26.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.26.1 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.26.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.26.1 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl) at bin/automake line 48.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at bin/automake line 48.

Regards

        Thomas

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