bug#29178: Failure to build automake > 11

[Thomas Koenig]

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