[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#883571: Bug#883571: Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\${ <-- HERE ([^ \t=:+{}]+)}/ at /usr/bin/automake line 3930

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Thu 2017-12-07 09:51:54 +0100, jean-christophe manciot wrote:
>>
>> Is it possible that you have an older version of automake installed?
>
> Yes, that's exactly the reason why the build failed. I suggest to put a
> constraint version on automake which can be tested by dpkg-checkbuilddeps.

Why do you have an older version of automake?  what version do you have
installed?

/usr/bin/automake is controlled by the alternatives system, so just
asking to be sure that a particular version of automake is installed
isn't actually sufficient to ensure that (for example) /usr/bin/automake
doesn't ultimately point back to automake1.11 :/

Can you suggest a patch that would have helped you to avoid the problem?

        --dkg
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