Bug#871367: fftw: FTBFS: Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\@(\w+){ <-- HERE ([^\{\}]+)}/ at texi2html line 1771.

[gregor herrmann]

Control: tag -1 + patch

On Mon, 07 Aug 2017 11:50:33 -0400, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

> Source: fftw
> Version: 2.1.5-4.1
> Severity: serious
> Tags: buster sid
> User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20170807 qa-ftbfs
> Justification: FTBFS on amd64
> 
> Hi,
> 
> During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
> amd64.
> 
> Relevant part (hopefully):
> > make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/doc'
> > perl texi2html -split_chapter -no_toc_href fftw.texi
> > Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\@(\w+){ <-- HERE ([^\{\}]+)}/ at texi2html line 1771.
> > Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\@value{ <-- HERE ([^\s\{\}]+)}/ at texi2html line 842, <FH001> line 4.
> > Makefile:799: recipe for target 'html' failed
> > make[1]: *** [html] Error 25

Here's yet another patch for texi2html.
(And a bonus feature to make testing the build easier.)


Cheers,
gregor

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