GNU bug report logs - #31883
Incompatibility with new Perl versions

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From: Mitja Stachowiak <info <at> mitjastachowiak.de>
To: bug-automake <at> gnu.org
Subject: Incompatibility with new Perl versions
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 11:21:19 +0200

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From: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org>
To: Mitja Stachowiak <info <at> mitjastachowiak.de>
Cc: 31883 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31883: Incompatibility with new Perl versions
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 09:58:10 +0200

Hello,

Mitja Stachowiak <info <at> mitjastachowiak.de> writes:

> I found a bug in http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/automake/automake-1.15.tar.xz -> bin/automake.in
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> At line 3881: Escape the outer {} with \. The correct line should look like this:
>
> $text =~ s/\$\{([^ \t=:+{}]+)\}/substitute_ac_subst_variables_worker ($1)/ge;
>
> Since newer versions, Perl enforces the escape of this brackets.

This is fixed since Automake 1.16

Thanks for the bug report.

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Mathieu Lirzin
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