Hello Automake devs,
I have automake version 1.14.1 installed to a prefix containing the '@'
character. Perl version 5.10.0. Running aclocal (through
'autoreconf'), I get the following warnings, then failure:
Possible unintended interpolation of @4 in string at
/ptmp/bavier/projects/spack/opt/unknown_arch/gcc@4.3.4/automake@1.14.1-56e69c6c/bin/aclocal
line 72.
Possible unintended interpolation of @1 in string at
/ptmp/bavier/projects/spack/opt/unknown_arch/gcc@4.3.4/automake@1.14.1-56e69c6c/bin/aclocal
line 72.
aclocal: error: couldn't open directory
'/ptmp/bavier/projects/spack/opt/unknown_arch/gcc.3.4/automake.14.1-56e69c6c/share/aclocal-1.14':
No such file or directory
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
This seems related to perl's array interpolation in strings. Line 72
contains:
my @automake_includes =
("/ptmp/bavier/projects/spack/opt/unknown_arch/gcc@4.3.4/automake@1.14.1-56e69c6c/share/aclocal-$APIVERSION");
Replacing the '@' characters with "\@" lets aclocal run without error.
`~Eric
