Re: [PATCH 1/2] Bump to autoconf 2.69 and automake 1.15.1

Andreas K. Huettel
2018-06-16T22:41:51Z

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Am Freitag, 15. Juni 2018, 02:43:09 CEST schrieb Simon Marchi:
> From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
>
> When trying to run the update-gnulib.sh script in gdb, I get this:
>
> Error: Wrong automake version (Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated,
> passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\${ <-- HERE ([^
> =:+{}]+)}/ at /opt/automake/1.11.1/bin/automake line 4113.), we need
> 1.11.1. Aborting.
>
> Apparently, it's an issue with a regex in automake that triggers a
> warning starting with Perl 5.22. It has been fixed in automake 1.15.1.

Just FYI, starting with Perl 5.26 (which was released a year ago) this is a
fatal error.

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Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer
(council, toolchain, perl, libreoffice, comrel)

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