On 2024-11-20 21:56, Li, Changqing via Bug reports for Automake wrote:
> The failure is caused by the long path of the perl in aclocal.in, the
> shebang is cutted. Could we change it like following diff?
> [...]
> -#!@PERL@
> +#!/usr/bin/env perl
Hardcoding program names like this isn't really going to work well as a
general solution.
I was going to suggest you could just configure for your system with:
./configure PERL='/usr/bin/env perl'
and it will substitute that into the scripts for you, but the configure
script in Automake 1.17 exits with a fatal error if it determines that
$PERL contains spaces. We should probably make this non fatal since the
check is clearly too broad. You can patch configure to not exit:
--- configure~
+++ configure
@@ -3514,7 +3514,7 @@ case $PERL in
as_fn_error $? "perl not found" "$LINENO" 5
;;
*' '* | *' '*)
- as_fn_error $? "The path to your Perl contains spaces or tabs.
+: as_fn_error $? "The path to your Perl contains spaces or tabs.
This would cause build failures later or unusable programs.
Please use a path without spaces and try again." "$LINENO" 5
;;
and then it will let you set PERL='/usr/bin/env perl' and it will work.
Hope that helps,
Nick
