https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82856
Bug ID: 82856 Summary: [8 Regression] --enable-maintainter-mode broken by automake failure Product: gcc Version: unknown Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: blocker Priority: P3 Component: bootstrap Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: tkoenig at gcc dot gnu.org Target Milestone: --- I currently cannot build gcc on OpenSuse Tumbleweed due to some problem with automake 1.11-6 (which is prescribed by the gcc prerequisites): make[3]: Verzeichnis „/home/ig25/Gcc/trunk-bin/zlib“ wird verlassen make[3]: Verzeichnis „/home/ig25/Gcc/trunk-bin/libbacktrace“ wird betreten cd ../../trunk/libbacktrace && /bin/sh /home/ig25/Gcc/trunk/missing --run automake-1.11 --foreign --ignore-deps Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\${ <-- HERE ([^ \t=:+{}]+)}/ at /home/ig25/bin/automake-1.11 line 4159. make[3]: *** [Makefile:423: ../../trunk/libbacktrace/Makefile.in] Fehler 1 make[3]: Verzeichnis „/home/ig25/Gcc/trunk-bin/libbacktrace“ wird verlassen make[2]: *** [Makefile:11465: all-stage1-libbacktrace] Fehler 2 make[2]: Verzeichnis „/home/ig25/Gcc/trunk-bin“ wird verlassen make[1]: *** [Makefile:27970: stage1-bubble] Fehler 2 make[1]: Verzeichnis „/home/ig25/Gcc/trunk-bin“ wird verlassen make: *** [Makefile:956: all] Fehler 2 configure was ../trunk/configure --prefix=$HOME --enable-maintainer-mode --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --disable-multilib Perl is g25@linux-d6cw:~/Gcc/trunk-bin> perl -v This is perl 5, version 26, subversion 1 (v5.26.1) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi Copyright 1987-2017, Larry Wall automake-1.15 runs at least without a syntax error. So, it may be that a never Perl version has broken the antique version of automake we are using. Maybe an upgrade to a newer version could fix it. In the meantime, I am unable to work on libfortran issues.