Re: automake-1.17 fails with latest Perl (5.41.8) - Possible precedence problem between ! and numeric eq (==)

[Collin Funk]

Igor Todorovski <itodorov@ca.ibm.com> writes:

> This is the relevant code:
>
>   return (!!$val == $neg) ? '##%' : '';

I've attached a patch that fixes this by quoting $val and the '!'
operators.

Maybe Automake shouldn't use:

    use warnings FATAL => 'all';

As was mentioned in the GitHub thread you linked and Perl's
documentation [1].

For cases like this, where the interpreter warns about code it finds
"problematic", but works as the programmer expected.

Collin

[1] https://perldoc.perl.org/warnings#Fatal-Warnings

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