https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1889732
Well, I found the updated patch from Miro at https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/automake/pull-request/3.patch, which also fixes m4/python.m4, the crucial change being: +- [am_cv_python_version=`$PYTHON -c "import sys; sys.stdout.write(sys.version[[:3]])"`]) ++ [am_cv_python_version=`$PYTHON -c "import sys; sys.stdout.write('%d.%d' % sys.version_info[[:2]])"`]) I presume that's right, though I have no access to any python 3.10 system to check. The doc needs some more updating, it seems. I will commit asap. If you end up needing to make further changes, please let me know. --thanks, karl.