aclocal using automake Automake::XFile

[Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz]

Hello.

Using
m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.17
automake (GNU automake) 1.15

 /usr/bin/aclocal contains code:

$traces .= " --language Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4 ";
$traces = "echo '$early_m4_code' | $traces - ";
...
verb "running $traces $configure_ac";

my $tracefh = new Automake::XFile ("$traces $configure_ac |");

which fails here:
$ cd libgii-2.2.2; LC_ALL=C aclocal
aclocal: error: cannot open echo 'm4_define([m4_require_silent_probe], [-])' 
|... --trace='AM_AUTOMAKE_VERSION:$f::$n' configure.ac |: No such file or 
directory

(full error: http://sprunge.us/EehW)


Tried small script to reproduce and it also fails:

#!/usr/bin/perl

BEGIN {
        push ( @INC,"/usr/share/automake");
}

use strict;

use Automake::XFile;

my $traces = "echo 'zupa'";
my $tracefh = new Automake::XFile ("$traces");

$ LC_ALL=C perl a1.pl
a1.pl: error: cannot open echo 'zupa': No such file or directory


How is this supposed to work then - what I'm missing?

Thanks,
-- 
Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / ( maven.pl | pld-linux.org )