Re: aclocal using automake Automake::XFile

[Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz]

On Tuesday 08 of December 2015, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 of December 2015, Eric Blake wrote:
> > Huh - it sounds like your version of perl is trying to open a literal
> > file named 'echo ... | autom4te ... autoconf.ac |' , instead of properly
> > opening a subshell command that feeds echo to autom4te then collects the
> > output of autom4te (basically, Automake::XFile() is trying to do the
> > equivalent of a popen() on a shell command).
> 
> Too bad that I didn't do backup of my perl first... because perl reinstall
> fixed the problem. So that had to be some interesting corruption.

Guilty part found - prelink 20130503 cron job was doing that to perl.

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