[Buildroot] popt build failing during autoreconf
Grant Edwards
grant.b.edwards at gmail.com
Tue Jan 8 21:53:54 UTC 2019
On 2019-01-08, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> The popt package has recently started failing to build during the
> autoreconf step. [...] This appears to be an incompatibility between
> automake and perl 5.26:
>
> $ ./output/host/usr/bin/automake --version
> Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\${ <-- HERE ([^ \t=:+{}]+)}/ at ./output/host/usr/bin/automake line 3936.
>
> It appears that buildroot-2016.11.2 is using automake 1.15, and the
> current git buildroot master branch is using version 1.15.1. Should I
> be able to update the automake package without causing problems?
It is indeed an incompatiblity between automake 1.15 and perl 5.26.
Changing the automake version to 1.15.1 in the buildroot-2016.11.2
automake.mk file fixes the problem. You can't, however, just use the
automake.mk file from git master, because the newer autotools host
paths are not what other packages expect.
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