Re: version 1.7.x --- lots of syntax errors with recent perl

[Helmut Jarausch]

On  3 Jan, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
>>>> "Helmut" == Helmut Jarausch <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>  Helmut> Hi,
>  Helmut> recent versions of automake (e.g. 1.7.1 and 1.7.2) fail with lots
>  Helmut> of perl syntax errors
> 
>  Helmut> my perl :
>  Helmut> (revision 5.0 version 9 subversion 0 patch 18390)
> 
> Thanks for the report.  I believe this is fixed in CVS.  
> I suggest you use branch-1-7, which will become 1.7.3.
> (See http://sources.redhat.com/automake/ for the CVS location.)
> 
> [...]
> 

Thanks for the hint.
Unfortunately I cannot build the cvs sources.
While configure runs through smoothly, the follow
make stops immediately since it tries to execute 
'automake' in the current directory which has not been built
yet from automake.in .

Helmut.

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Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany