On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Thomas Koenig <tkoe...@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.