bug#29178: Failure to build automake > 11

[Thomas Koenig]

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
help2man: can't get `--help' info from automake-1.13
Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
make: *** [Makefile:4278: doc/automake-1.13.1] Fehler 255

and I am at a loss how to proceed.

This is on a recent OpenSuse Tumbleweed, perl is at

$ perl -v

This is perl 5, version 26, subversion 1 (v5.26.1) built for 
x86_64-linux-thread-multi

Copyright 1987-2017, Larry Wall

This is currently blocking some gcc development, at least for me.

Any ideas?

Regards

        Thomas