GNU bug report logs - #23602
Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex

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Package: automake;

Reported by: carl hansen <carlhansen1234 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 06:24:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Merged with 21986, 23014, 31883

Done: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Daniel Schepler <dschepler <at> gmail.com>
To: 23602 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23602: automake does not work at all with Perl 5.26.0
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 12:25:06 -0700

With the recent release of Perl 5.26.0, this warning has become an
error, so automake doesn't work at all on any packages.  For example,
with libvncserver-0.9.11 (which doesn't provide any release tarball
with pregenerated autotools):

...
autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy
Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by <--
HERE in m/\${ <-- HERE ([6 \t=:={}]+)}/ at /usr/bin/automake line
3936.
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 255
-- 
Daniel Schepler
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 336 days ago.

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