My bad - need to read announcements in the reverse order. I found
automake-1.16.1 and all is fine again.
Thanks - and my apologies for the noise. -- not a bug.
On 7/24/2018 7:10 PM, Michael Felt wrote:
Just checked - building automake 1.15.1 is simple. automake-1.16, not
so simple (aka not working, see below).
Hope this helps! - below for details
Target "clean" is up to date.
root@x066:[/data/prj/gnu/automake-1.15.1]make
GEN bin/automake
GEN bin/aclocal
GEN t/ax/shell-no-trail-bslash
GEN t/ax/cc-no-c-o
GEN runtest
GEN doc/aclocal.1
GEN doc/automake.1
GEN lib/Automake/Config.pm
GEN doc/aclocal-1.15.1
GEN doc/automake-1.15.1
GEN t/ax/test-defs.sh
AUTOMAKE-1.16:
root@x066:[/data/prj/gnu/automake-1.16]make
GEN bin/automake
GEN bin/aclocal
GEN bin/aclocal-1.16
GEN bin/automake-1.16
GEN t/ax/shell-no-trail-bslash
GEN t/ax/cc-no-c-o
GEN runtest
GEN doc/aclocal.1
GEN doc/automake.1
GEN lib/Automake/Config.pm
GEN doc/aclocal-1.16.1
GEN doc/automake-1.16.1
help2man: can't get `--help' info from automake-1.16
Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 255.
There is at least one issue, both in in-tree and out-of-tree builds:
root@x066:[/data/prj/gnu/automake-1.16]make V=1
: && lib/install-sh -c -d doc && ./pre-inst-env
/usr/bin/perl ./doc/help2man --output=doc/automake-1.16.1 automake-1.16
help2man: can't get `--help' info from automake-1.16
Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 255.
root@x066:[/data/prj/gnu/automake-1.16]./bin/automake --help
"none" is not exported by the List::Util module
Can't continue after import errors at ./bin/automake line 76
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./bin/automake line 76.
This is the error I get AFTER doing:
# ln -s lib/Automake Automake
Without the symbolic link I get:
root@x066:[/data/prj/gnu/automake-1.16]./bin/automake --help
Can't locate Automake/Config.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/opt/share/automake-1.16 /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.8/aix-thread-multi
/usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.8
/usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.8.8/aix-thread-multi
/usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl .) at
./bin/automake line 47.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./bin/automake line 47.
