Hello.
Thank you for the bug report. The problem is a bit more complicated,
unfortunately. At least from my point of view.
I did a bit of an analysis. The problem can be replicated on current
master on a Linux - just do
ln -s /usr/bin 'User bins'
export PATH='User bins':$PATH
and reconfigure.
I can surround $PERL and $(PERL) with parentheses (patch attached), but:
1) this doesn't fix the "shebang" lines, like #!/bin/bash, leaving
e.g. bin/aclocal with
#!User bins/perl
and that not only will not work, it still stops the build with
help2man: can't get `--help' info from bin/aclocal
because of
$ bin/aclocal --help
bash: bin/aclocal: User: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
2) this won't work if the correct perl command has options, like when
we need to, for some reason, have e.g. PERL=perl -W
3) I noticed problem 2) because my fake "User bins" appears also in
$(INSTALL) and in $(MKDIR_P) in the generated Makefile. Those cannot
be quoted, because "/whatever/mkdir -p" is not a correct program name.
It's "/whatever/mkdir" and "-p" is a parameter.
Sorry to say this, but until someone provides a better solution, I
recommend installing Perl (and other GNU tools - MinGW, coreutils,
etc.) in paths without spaces, like c:\perl or
c:\users\your_username\perl (assuming "your_username" doesn't have
spaces, of course). This may also save you headaches with all those
scripts which have "#!/bin/bash" or just "bash".
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From: Bogdan Drozdowski <>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 19:34:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Partial fix for spaces in Perl path
---
configure.ac | 4 ++--
doc/local.mk | 2 +-
lib/gendocs.sh | 2 +-
t/local.mk | 4 ++--
4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index d095ccb1a..e952c3d1a 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ if test -z "$PERL"; then
AC_MSG_ERROR([perl not found])
fi
# Save details about the selected perl interpreter in config.log.
-AM_RUN_LOG([$PERL --version])
-$PERL -e 'require 5.006;' || {
+AM_RUN_LOG(["$PERL" --version])
+"$PERL" -e 'require 5.006;' || {
AC_MSG_ERROR(
[perl 5.6 or better is required; perl 5.10 or better
is recommended. If you have several perl versions
diff --git a/doc/local.mk b/doc/local.mk
index d72e8e6bb..8b7d98caa 100644
--- a/doc/local.mk
+++ b/doc/local.mk
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST += %D%/help2man
update_mans = \
$(AM_V_GEN): \
&& $(MKDIR_P) %D% \
- && AUTOMAKE_HELP2MAN=true ./pre-inst-env $(PERL) $(srcdir)/%D%/help2man --output=$@ --info-page=automake
+ && AUTOMAKE_HELP2MAN=true ./pre-inst-env "$(PERL)" $(srcdir)/%D%/help2man --output=$@ --info-page=automake
%D%/aclocal.1 %D%/automake.1:
$(AM_V_GEN): \
diff --git a/lib/gendocs.sh b/lib/gendocs.sh
index 9afe3100e..58ea6cee0 100755
--- a/lib/gendocs.sh
+++ b/lib/gendocs.sh
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ copy_images()
local odir
odir=$1
shift
- $PERL -n -e "
+ "$PERL" -n -e "
BEGIN {
\$me = '$prog';
\$odir = '$odir';
diff --git a/t/local.mk b/t/local.mk
index 4fa46a071..912de5311 100644
--- a/t/local.mk
+++ b/t/local.mk
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ installcheck-local: installcheck-testsuite
installcheck-testsuite:
$(AM_V_GEN)$(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) check \
LOG_COMPILER=$(AM_TEST_RUNNER_SHELL) \
- PL_LOG_COMPILER=$(PERL) \
+ PL_LOG_COMPILER="$(PERL)" \
am_running_installcheck=yes
# Ensure that the installed Automake perl modules are found when running 'installcheck' target
@@ -278,6 +278,6 @@ EXTRA_DIST += $(perf_TESTS)
clean-local: clean-local-check
.PHONY: clean-local-check
clean-local-check:
- $(AM_V_GEN)$(PERL) $(srcdir)/t/ax/deltree.pl t/*.dir t/*/*.dir */t/*.dir
+ $(AM_V_GEN)"$(PERL)" $(srcdir)/t/ax/deltree.pl t/*.dir t/*/*.dir */t/*.dir
# vim: ft=automake noet
--
2.35.1
