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July 26, 2017 06:07
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A patch for automake to compile it with later versions of Perl
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| --- automake.in 2015-01-06 03:25:55.000000000 +0800 | |
| +++ automake.in.patched 2017-07-26 13:58:07.086205701 +0800 | |
| @@ -3878,7 +3878,7 @@ | |
| sub substitute_ac_subst_variables | |
| { | |
| my ($text) = @_; | |
| - $text =~ s/\${([^ \t=:+{}]+)}/substitute_ac_subst_variables_worker ($1)/ge; | |
| + $text =~ s/\$\{([^ \t=:+{}]+)\}/substitute_ac_subst_variables_worker ($1)/ge; | |
| return $text; | |
| } |
Thank you! This enabled me to successfully build automake 1.12.2.
@sooorajjj Edit the file automake.in and paste line
@sooorajjj The patch can be applied with patch command, e.g., patch automake.in < patch.txt.
Just for future reference, this patch allowed me to build automake-1.15 successfully in Ubuntu 18.
I got this error
The text leading up to this was:
|--- automake.in 2015-01-06 03:25:55.000000000 +0800
|+++ automake.in.patched 2017-07-26 13:58:07.086205701 +0800
File to patch: patch.txt
checking file patch.txt
Using Plan A...
patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line
Hunk #1 FAILED at 3878.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED
done
The issue that this patch was trying to fix had been patched upstream since autotools-mirror/automake@13f00eb. There is no need to apply this patch for automake>=1.15.1.
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@xywei How to apply this patch?