Automake installed from the current master (commit 4e6eff3597649782def55fc1dfeeec92cec4b15e) is unusable:
automake: error: version is incorrect: 1.17.0.90 automake: Please contact <bug-automake@gnu.org>. at $prefix/share/automake-1.17/Automake/Channels.pm line 661, <GEN0> line 73. Automake::Channels::msg("automake", "", "version is incorrect: 1.17.0.90") called at $prefix/share/automake-1.17/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm line 233 Automake::ChannelDefs::prog_error("version is incorrect: 1.17.0.90") called at $prefix/share/automake-1.17/Automake/Version.pm line 128 Automake::Version::check("1.17.0.90", "1.16.3") called at $prefix/share/automake-1.17/Automake/Options.pm line 384 Automake::Options::_process_option_list(HASH(0x7fdb82147640), HASH(0x7fdb84872710), HASH(0x7fdb84872770), HASH(0x7fdb848727d0), HASH(0x7fdb84872830)) called at $prefix/share/automake-1.17/Automake/Options.pm line 428 Automake::Options::process_global_option_list(HASH(0x7fdb84872710), HASH(0x7fdb84872770), HASH(0x7fdb848727d0), HASH(0x7fdb84872830)) called at $prefix/bin/automake line 5499 Automake::scan_autoconf_traces("configure.ac") called at $prefix/bin/automake line 5599 Automake::scan_autoconf_files() called at $prefix/bin/automake line 8501 autoreconf: error: automake failed with exit status: 29 I suppose Automake::Version::split fails when given "1.17.0.90" as input? Best regards, Dario