Subject: Re: bug#31883: Incompatibility with new Perl versions

From: Mathieu Lirzin <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 09:58:10 +0200

Hello,

Mitja Stachowiak <[email-masked]> writes:

> I found a bug in http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/automake/automake-1.15.tar.xz -> bin/automake.in
>
> 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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