autotools build fail from rsb

[Joel Sherrill]

On Mar 18, 2018 11:23 AM, "Vijay Kumar Banerjee" <vijaykumar9597 at gmail.com>
wrote:

I have tried
perl-5.24.3
perl-5.22.4
perl-5.20.3

still getting the same error, it be coming from something else


By any chance can this be worked around by disabling documentation for what
is being built?


-- vijay

On 18 March 2018 at 16:15, Vijay Kumar Banerjee <vijaykumar9597 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> -- vijay
>
> On 18 March 2018 at 16:13, Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 6:41 AM, Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
>> > Vijay,
>> >
>> > On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 6:36 AM, Vijay Kumar Banerjee
>> > <vijaykumar9597 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I have set the PATH like this
>> >> /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/home/luna
>> tic/.local/bin:/home/lunatic/bin
>> >>
>> >> I'm still getting the same error
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -- vijay
>> >>
>> >> On 18 March 2018 at 16:01, Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 12:37 PM, Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org>
>> wrote:
>> >>> > I answered what I think the cause is on another thread.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Take the ancient RTEMS autotools out of your PATH while building
>> qemu.
>> >>> > Use a
>> >>> > PATH without RTEMS tools in it. I think the ancient automake
>> version we
>> >>> > use
>> >>> > must have --help which help2man can't parse.
>> >>> >
>> >>>
>> >>> I don't think this is the solution, because the failure happens while
>> >>> trying to build the autotools.
>> >>>
>> >
>> > What happens when you run on the command line:
>> >
>> > $> automake-1.12 --help
>> >
>>
>> I get the help(along with options and usage) printed on the screen .
>
>
>> I suspect it is related to:
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-automake/2017-06/msg00003.html
>>
>> The problem is how perl is handling regex escaping where a newer perl
>> causes an error when an older perl caused a warning. Since we are kind
>> of stuck with an older automake, you should install an older perl.
>> Apparently, something before 5.26.0 should work I guess.
>>
>> -Gedare
>>
>> >>> > On Mar 17, 2018 11:34 AM, "Vijay Kumar Banerjee"
>> >>> > <vijaykumar9597 at gmail.com>
>> >>> > wrote:
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> hello ,
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> As suggested by Gedare , I have started this thread on the build
>> error
>> >>> >> that I'm getting .
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> I'm getting automake-1.12.6-x86_64-linux-gnu-1 building error
>> while
>> >>> >> trying
>> >>> >> to build autotools from rsb
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> I'm using fedora 27 64bit .
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> P.S: the error report is attached
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> -- vijay
>> >>
>> >>
>>
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