Re: Bug - Warnings with newer Perl versions ("Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here")

[Gavin Smith]

On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 09:26:13PM +0300, address@hidden wrote:
> This was originally noticed with Octave when using the help command, or
> when entering a command with invalid or missing arguments.
> 
> Warnings like this appear before the actual command output begins:
> 
> Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl
> 5.32), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in
> m/^\s+@([[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]\-]*)({
> <-- HERE })?\s*/ at /usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Parser.pm line 5481.
> Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl
> 5.32), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in
> m/^\s+@([[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]\-]*)({
> <-- HERE })?\s*(\@(c|comment)((\@|\s+).*)?)?/ at
> /usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Parser.pm line 5485.
> 
> Tested with Octave 4.4.1 on Arch Linux x86-64 with Perl 5.28.0.
> 
> At least Debian and Red Hat maintainers have patched this but I don't know
> if this has been reported to Texinfo developers.

Thank you, it has been fixed already in the development code.