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bug#67891: automake-1.16i doesn't build on Solaris 10 sparc
From: |
Karl Berry |
Subject: |
bug#67891: automake-1.16i doesn't build on Solaris 10 sparc |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Dec 2023 16:52:40 -0700 |
$output =~ s/^((#.*)?\n)*\K/.POSIX:\n\n/;
Solaris 10 'perl --version' says it's Perl v5.8.4. v5.8.4 is dated
2004 but \K was added in v5.10
I simply removed the \K, since its only purpose is to optimize use of $&
(matched text), but we aren't using $& with this regexp, so far as I can
discern. (This line was added for bug#55025, so cc-ing that bug.)
This line with the \K didn't exist in 1.16 (it was added in October
2023), so there may well be something else lurking that makes
"automake --help" fail on Solaris. We'll see.
Now to look into the help2man call in the first place. --thanks, karl.
P.S. We could probably replace all uses of $& with other variables, and
save some small amount of time, as explained in "Performance issues" in
perlvar. I'm not going to go down that road.