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Failure to build automake > 11

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig <at> netcologne.de>
To: bug-automake <at> gnu.org
Subject: Failure to build automake > 11
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 21:45:35 +0100

Hi,

in trying to narrow down a build failure of gcc, see

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82856

I tried to build a newer version of automake than 1-11.6
(which gcc is currently locked at). All builds failed with

  GEN      doc/automake-1.13.1
help2man: can't get `--help' info from automake-1.13
Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
make: *** [Makefile:4278: doc/automake-1.13.1] Fehler 255

and I am at a loss how to proceed.

This is on a recent OpenSuse Tumbleweed, perl is at

$ perl -v

This is perl 5, version 26, subversion 1 (v5.26.1) built for 
x86_64-linux-thread-multi

Copyright 1987-2017, Larry Wall

This is currently blocking some gcc development, at least for me.

Any ideas?

Regards

	Thomas

Message #8 received at 29178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: carl hansen <carlhansen1234 <at> gmail.com>
To: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig <at> netcologne.de>
Cc: 29178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29178: Failure to build automake > 11
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 13:14:44 -0800

On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Thomas Koenig <tkoenig <at> netcologne.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in trying to narrow down a build failure of gcc, see
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82856
>
> I tried to build a newer version of automake than 1-11.6
> (which gcc is currently locked at). All builds failed with
>
>   GEN      doc/automake-1.13.1


your bug is only with recent versions of perl which require stricter quoting.

latest automake is 1.15.1
Why they don't get with the program is beyond me.

Message #11 received at 29178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org>
To: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig <at> netcologne.de>
Cc: carl hansen <carlhansen1234 <at> gmail.com>, 29178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29178: Failure to build automake > 11
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 23:05:05 +0100

Hello,

carl hansen <carlhansen1234 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Thomas Koenig <tkoenig <at> netcologne.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> in trying to narrow down a build failure of gcc, see
>>
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82856
>>
>> I tried to build a newer version of automake than 1-11.6
>> (which gcc is currently locked at). All builds failed with
>>
>>   GEN      doc/automake-1.13.1
>
>
> your bug is only with recent versions of perl which require stricter quoting.
>
> latest automake is 1.15.1
> Why they don't get with the program is beyond me.

This quoting issue has only been fixed since Automake 1.15.1, so using
Automake with Perl 26 requires at least that Automake version.

If help is needed on GCC side to support newer version of Automake, feel
free to ask <automake <at> gnu.org> for help.

Thanks.

-- 
Mathieu Lirzin
GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761  070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37

Message #14 received at 29178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig <at> netcologne.de>
To: carl hansen <carlhansen1234 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 29178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29178: Failure to build automake > 11
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 23:13:53 +0100

Am 06.11.2017 um 22:14 schrieb carl hansen:
> On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Thomas Koenig <tkoenig <at> netcologne.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> in trying to narrow down a build failure of gcc, see
>>
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82856
>>
>> I tried to build a newer version of automake than 1-11.6
>> (which gcc is currently locked at). All builds failed with
>>
>>    GEN      doc/automake-1.13.1
> 
> 
> your bug is only with recent versions of perl which require stricter quoting.
> 
> latest automake is 1.15.1

The latest version of automake shows the same error on my system:

ig25 <at> linux-d6cw:~/Downloads/automake-1.15> make
  GEN      bin/automake
  GEN      bin/aclocal
  GEN      t/ax/shell-no-trail-bslash
  GEN      t/ax/cc-no-c-o
  GEN      runtest
  GEN      doc/aclocal.1
  GEN      doc/automake.1
  GEN      lib/Automake/Config.pm
  GEN      doc/aclocal-1.15.1
  GEN      doc/automake-1.15.1
help2man: can't get `--help' info from automake-1.15
Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
make: *** [Makefile:3687: doc/automake-1.15.1] Fehler 255

Message #17 received at 29178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org>
To: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig <at> netcologne.de>
Cc: carl hansen <carlhansen1234 <at> gmail.com>, 29178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29178: Failure to build automake > 11
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 23:23:45 +0100

Hello Thomas,

Thomas Koenig <tkoenig <at> netcologne.de> writes:

> Am 06.11.2017 um 22:14 schrieb carl hansen:
>> On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Thomas Koenig <tkoenig <at> netcologne.de> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> in trying to narrow down a build failure of gcc, see
>>>
>>> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82856
>>>
>>> I tried to build a newer version of automake than 1-11.6
>>> (which gcc is currently locked at). All builds failed with
>>>
>>>    GEN      doc/automake-1.13.1
>>
>>
>> your bug is only with recent versions of perl which require stricter quoting.
>>
>> latest automake is 1.15.1
>
> The latest version of automake shows the same error on my system:
>
> ig25 <at> linux-d6cw:~/Downloads/automake-1.15> make
>   GEN      bin/automake
>   GEN      bin/aclocal
>   GEN      t/ax/shell-no-trail-bslash
>   GEN      t/ax/cc-no-c-o
>   GEN      runtest
>   GEN      doc/aclocal.1
>   GEN      doc/automake.1
>   GEN      lib/Automake/Config.pm
>   GEN      doc/aclocal-1.15.1
>   GEN      doc/automake-1.15.1
> help2man: can't get `--help' info from automake-1.15
> Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
> make: *** [Makefile:3687: doc/automake-1.15.1] Fehler 255

Could you provide your config.log and the output of 'make V=1' and
'bin/automake --help'?

Thanks.

-- 
Mathieu Lirzin
GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761  070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37

Message #20 received at 29178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig <at> netcologne.de>
To: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org>
Cc: carl hansen <carlhansen1234 <at> gmail.com>, 29178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29178: Failure to build automake > 11
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 23:30:45 +0100

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Hi Mathieu,

> Thomas Koenig <tkoenig <at> netcologne.de> writes:
> 
>> Am 06.11.2017 um 22:14 schrieb carl hansen:
>>> On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Thomas Koenig <tkoenig <at> netcologne.de> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> in trying to narrow down a build failure of gcc, see
>>>>
>>>> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82856
>>>>
>>>> I tried to build a newer version of automake than 1-11.6
>>>> (which gcc is currently locked at). All builds failed with
>>>>
>>>>     GEN      doc/automake-1.13.1
>>>
>>>
>>> your bug is only with recent versions of perl which require stricter quoting.
>>>
>>> latest automake is 1.15.1
>>
>> The latest version of automake shows the same error on my system:
>>
>> ig25 <at> linux-d6cw:~/Downloads/automake-1.15> make
>>    GEN      bin/automake
>>    GEN      bin/aclocal
>>    GEN      t/ax/shell-no-trail-bslash
>>    GEN      t/ax/cc-no-c-o
>>    GEN      runtest
>>    GEN      doc/aclocal.1
>>    GEN      doc/automake.1
>>    GEN      lib/Automake/Config.pm
>>    GEN      doc/aclocal-1.15.1
>>    GEN      doc/automake-1.15.1
>> help2man: can't get `--help' info from automake-1.15
>> Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
>> make: *** [Makefile:3687: doc/automake-1.15.1] Fehler 255
> 
> Could you provide your config.log and the output of 'make V=1' and
> 'bin/automake --help'?

Sure.

ig25 <at> linux-d6cw:~/Downloads/automake-1.15> make V=1
: && /usr/bin/mkdir -p doc && { 
PATH='/home/ig25/Downloads/automake-1.15/t/wrap:'$PATH && export PATH; } 
&& /usr/bin/perl ./doc/help2man --output=doc/automake-1.15.1 automake-1.15
help2man: can't get `--help' info from automake-1.15
Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
make: *** [Makefile:3687: doc/automake-1.15.1] Fehler 255
ig25 <at> linux-d6cw:~/Downloads/automake-1.15> bin/automake --help
Can't locate Automake/Config.pm in @INC (you may need to install the 
Automake::Config module) (@INC contains: /home/ig25/share/automake-1.15 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26.1 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.26.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.26.1 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.26.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.26.1 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl) at bin/automake line 48.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at bin/automake line 48.

Regards

	Thomas

[config.log (text/x-log, attachment)]

Message #23 received at 29178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org>
To: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig <at> netcologne.de>
Cc: carl hansen <carlhansen1234 <at> gmail.com>, 29178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29178: Failure to build automake > 11
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 23:37:44 +0100

Thomas Koenig <tkoenig <at> netcologne.de> writes:

>> Could you provide your config.log and the output of 'make V=1' and
>> 'bin/automake --help'?

> Sure.
>
> ig25 <at> linux-d6cw:~/Downloads/automake-1.15> make V=1
> : && /usr/bin/mkdir -p doc && {
> PATH='/home/ig25/Downloads/automake-1.15/t/wrap:'$PATH && export PATH;
> } && /usr/bin/perl ./doc/help2man --output=doc/automake-1.15.1
> automake-1.15
> help2man: can't get `--help' info from automake-1.15
> Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
> make: *** [Makefile:3687: doc/automake-1.15.1] Fehler 255
>

> ig25 <at> linux-d6cw:~/Downloads/automake-1.15> bin/automake --help
> Can't locate Automake/Config.pm in @INC (you may need to install the
> Automake::Config module) (@INC contains:
> /home/ig25/share/automake-1.15
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26.1
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.26.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.26.1
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.26.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.26.1
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl) at bin/automake line 48.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at bin/automake line 48.

Oops my bad, I should have asked for the output of 't/wrap/automake-1.15
--help' instead.

Can you provide it?

-- 
Mathieu Lirzin
GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761  070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37

Message #26 received at 29178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig <at> netcologne.de>
To: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org>
Cc: carl hansen <carlhansen1234 <at> gmail.com>, 29178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29178: Failure to build automake > 11
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 23:46:29 +0100

Am 06.11.2017 um 23:37 schrieb Mathieu Lirzin:
> Thomas Koenig <tkoenig <at> netcologne.de> writes:
> 
>>> Could you provide your config.log and the output of 'make V=1' and
>>> 'bin/automake --help'?
> 
>> Sure.
>>
>> ig25 <at> linux-d6cw:~/Downloads/automake-1.15> make V=1
>> : && /usr/bin/mkdir -p doc && {
>> PATH='/home/ig25/Downloads/automake-1.15/t/wrap:'$PATH && export PATH;
>> } && /usr/bin/perl ./doc/help2man --output=doc/automake-1.15.1
>> automake-1.15
>> help2man: can't get `--help' info from automake-1.15
>> Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
>> make: *** [Makefile:3687: doc/automake-1.15.1] Fehler 255
>>
> 
>> ig25 <at> linux-d6cw:~/Downloads/automake-1.15> bin/automake --help
>> Can't locate Automake/Config.pm in @INC (you may need to install the
>> Automake::Config module) (@INC contains:
>> /home/ig25/share/automake-1.15
>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi
>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26.1
>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.26.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi
>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.26.1
>> /usr/lib/perl5/5.26.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.26.1
>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl) at bin/automake line 48.
>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at bin/automake line 48.
> 
> Oops my bad, I should have asked for the output of 't/wrap/automake-1.15
> --help' instead.
> 
> Can you provide it?

Ah, that looks like it could be the culprit:

ig25 <at> linux-d6cw:~/Downloads/automake-1.15> t/wrap/automake-1.15 --help
Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by <-- 
HERE in m/\${ <-- HERE ([^ \t=:+{}]+)}/ at 
/home/ig25/Downloads/automake-1.15/bin/automake line 3936.
Compilation failed in require at t/wrap/automake-1.15 line 27.

Message #29 received at 29178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org>
To: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig <at> netcologne.de>
Cc: 29178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29178: Failure to build automake > 11
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 00:01:39 +0100

Thomas Koenig <tkoenig <at> netcologne.de> writes:

> ig25 <at> linux-d6cw:~/Downloads/automake-1.15> t/wrap/automake-1.15 --help
> Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by <-- 
> HERE in m/\${ <-- HERE ([^ \t=:+{}]+)}/ at
> /home/ig25/Downloads/automake-1.15/bin/automake line 3936.
> Compilation failed in require at t/wrap/automake-1.15 line 27.

Indeed this is a symptom of the unescaped issue of bug#21001 [1].

Looking at your 'config.log':

> ## ----------------- ##
> ## Output variables. ##
> ## ----------------- ##
>
> ACLOCAL='"/home/ig25/Downloads/automake-1.15/t/wrap/aclocal-1.15"'
> AMTAR='$${TAR-tar}'
> AM_BACKSLASH='\'
> AM_DEFAULT_V='$(AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY)'
> AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY='0'
> AM_TEST_RUNNER_SHELL='/usr/bin/sh'
> AM_V='$(V)'
> APIVERSION='1.15'
> AUTOCONF='${SHELL} /home/ig25/Downloads/automake-1.15/lib/missing autoconf'
> AUTOHEADER='${SHELL} /home/ig25/Downloads/automake-1.15/lib/missing autoheader'
> AUTOMAKE='"/home/ig25/Downloads/automake-1.15/t/wrap/automake-1.15"'
> AWK='gawk'
> CC='cc'
> CFLAGS='-g -O2'
> CPPFLAGS=''
> CXX='c++'
> CXXFLAGS='-g -O2'
> CYGPATH_W='echo'
> DEFS='-DPACKAGE_NAME=\"GNU\ Automake\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"automake\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"1.15\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"GNU\ Automake\ 1.15\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"bug-automake <at> gnu.org\" -DPACKAGE_URL=\"http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/\"'

The fact that PACKAGE_VERSION and PACKAGE_STRING refers to 1.15 is not
normal.  It should be 1.15.1.

Could this be possible that you are building Automake 1.15 and not
1.15.1?

[1] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=21001.

-- 
Mathieu Lirzin
GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761  070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37

Message #32 received at 29178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: carl hansen <carlhansen1234 <at> gmail.com>
To: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig <at> netcologne.de>
Cc: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org>, 29178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29178: Failure to build automake > 11
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 15:01:25 -0800

>
> Ah, that looks like it could be the culprit:
>
> ig25 <at> linux-d6cw:~/Downloads/automake-1.15> t/wrap/automake-1.15 --help
> Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by <-- HERE
> in m/\${ <-- HERE ([^ \t=:+{}]+)}/ at
> /home/ig25/Downloads/automake-1.15/bin/automake line 3936.
> Compilation failed in require at t/wrap/automake-1.15 line 27.
>
>
That's fixed in automake 1.15.1 you seem to be using 1.15

Message #35 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philipp Thomas <pth <at> suse.de>
To: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig <at> netcologne.de>
Cc: bug-automake <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29178: Failure to build automake > 11
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 10:14:54 +0100

Hi Thomas,

* Thomas Koenig (tkoenig <at> netcologne.de) [20171106 23:31]:

> > > help2man: can't get `--help' info from automake-1.15

Tumbleweed does seem to have automake 1.15.1 so why don't you check with
'zypper se -s automake' and if TW does have it do 'zypper up automake'. With
that done the error should be gone.

hth
Philipp

Message #38 received at 29178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org>
To: carl hansen <carlhansen1234 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig <at> netcologne.de>, 29178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29178: Failure to build automake > 11
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 00:28:52 +0100

Hello,

carl hansen <carlhansen1234 <at> gmail.com> writes:

>>
>> Ah, that looks like it could be the culprit:
>>
>> ig25 <at> linux-d6cw:~/Downloads/automake-1.15> t/wrap/automake-1.15 --help
>> Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by <-- HERE
>> in m/\${ <-- HERE ([^ \t=:+{}]+)}/ at
>> /home/ig25/Downloads/automake-1.15/bin/automake line 3936.
>> Compilation failed in require at t/wrap/automake-1.15 line 27.
>>
>>
> That's fixed in automake 1.15.1 you seem to be using 1.15

I assume that this was the actual problem.  Since this bug has already
been fixed in Automake 1.15.1.  I am closing this bug.

Thanks.

-- 
Mathieu Lirzin
GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761  070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37

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