[Bug bootstrap/82856] --enable-maintainter-mode broken by incompatiblity of gcc's required automake and modern Perl

[tschwinge at gcc dot gnu.org]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82856

Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

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--- Comment #14 from Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Jonathan Wakely from comment #13)
> (In reply to Thomas Koenig from comment #7)
> > Author: tkoenig
> > Date: Thu Nov 16 20:24:00 2017
> > New Revision: 254845
> > 
> > URL: https://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs?rev=254845&root=gcc&view=rev
> > Log:
> > 2017-11-16  Thomas Koenig  <tkoenig@gcc.gnu.org>
> > 
> > 	PR bootstrap/82856
> > 	* doc/install.texi: Document incompatibility of Perl >=5.6.26
> > 	with the required version of automake 1.11.6.
> > 
> > 
> > Modified:
> >     trunk/gcc/ChangeLog
> >     trunk/gcc/doc/install.texi
> 
> Thomas, this patch refers to a non-existent 5.6.26 version (did you mean
> 5.26.0?)
> 
> But is this even still relevant now that we've updated the automake version?
> Can we revert it to just say 5.6.1 or later?

Indeed; <https://inbox.sourceware.org/87y1lp8lcr.fsf@euler.schwinge.homeip.net>
"Back to requiring "Perl version 5.6.1 (or later)" [PR82856]".