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'@' character in installation prefix breaks automake-1.15

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From: "Brantley, Michael" <Michael.Brantley <at> deshaw.com>
To: "bug-automake <at> gnu.org" <bug-automake <at> gnu.org>
Subject: '@' character in installation prefix breaks automake-1.15
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 16:06:57 +0000

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Configuring automake to install to a path containing a '@' character breaks the compilation as shown in the attached typescripts. We found that we were able to work around the bug with the following patch:

diff --git a/bin/aclocal.in b/bin/aclocal.in
index 349f24a2..c8ab8b3e 100644
--- a/bin/aclocal.in
+++ b/bin/aclocal.in
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ $perl_threads = 0;
# ACLOCAL_PATH environment variable, and reset with the '--system-acdir'
# option.
my @user_includes = ();
-my @automake_includes = ("@datadir@/aclocal-$APIVERSION");
+my @automake_includes = ('@datadir@/aclocal-' . $APIVERSION);
my @system_includes = ('@datadir@/aclocal');

# Whether we should copy M4 file in $user_includes[0].

In considering alternative fixes we found that we could equally address the problem by replacing the double-quoted string with '@datadir@/aclocal-@APIVERSION@', similar to the use of @APIVERSION@ on line 30, but elected to continue the use of $APIVERSION in the event that there was a specific reason for using the Perl variable in this instance.

Regards,

Michael Brantley

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Message #8 received at 25299 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Heiko Thiery <heiko.thiery <at> gmail.com>
To: 25299 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: '@' character in installation prefix breaks automake-1.15
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 12:16:35 +0200

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I can reproduce this issue. This will be triggered by the pipeline plugin
of jenkins when building in parallel. The additional workspaces are
postfixed by '@1', '@2' ...

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