Hello. Using m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.17 automake (GNU automake) 1.15
/usr/bin/aclocal contains code: $traces .= " --language Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4 "; $traces = "echo '$early_m4_code' | $traces - "; ... verb "running $traces $configure_ac"; my $tracefh = new Automake::XFile ("$traces $configure_ac |"); which fails here: $ cd libgii-2.2.2; LC_ALL=C aclocal aclocal: error: cannot open echo 'm4_define([m4_require_silent_probe], [-])' |... --trace='AM_AUTOMAKE_VERSION:$f::$n' configure.ac |: No such file or directory (full error: http://sprunge.us/EehW) Tried small script to reproduce and it also fails: #!/usr/bin/perl BEGIN { push ( @INC,"/usr/share/automake"); } use strict; use Automake::XFile; my $traces = "echo 'zupa'"; my $tracefh = new Automake::XFile ("$traces"); $ LC_ALL=C perl a1.pl a1.pl: error: cannot open echo 'zupa': No such file or directory How is this supposed to work then - what I'm missing? Thanks, -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / ( maven.pl | pld-linux.org )