Subject: Re: bug#30577: automake 1.15.1 path issue

From: Mathieu Lirzin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 14:23:14 +0100

Hello,

Adrian Sweet <[email-masked]> writes:

> I've installed automake 1.15.1 into a path containing the @ symbol
> (Jenkins pipeline build), on running aclocal in my package the script
> fails with a perl error:
>
>
> Setting up aclocal
> Possible unintended interpolation of @1 in string at
> /tmp/@1/bin/aclocal line 72.
> aclocal: error: couldn't open directory '/tmp//share/aclocal-1.15': No
> such file or directory

This issue has already been reported in bug#20903, and solved in commit
fd244f28f5637e13009f75b6962d03401b22149c

The fix will be released in Automake 1.16.

Thanks for the report.

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Mathieu Lirzin
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