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<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Autoconf</title>
- <para>First, fix a bug generated by Perl 5.28.</para>
+ <para>First, apply a patch fixes several problems that occur with the latest
+ perl, libtool, and bash version.</para>
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '361 s/{/\\{/' bin/autoscan.in</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&autoconf-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
<para>Prepare Autoconf for compilation:</para>
@@ -52,11 +53,12 @@
<para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
<!--
- <para>To test the results, issue:</para>-->
<para>The test suite is currently broken by bash-5 and libtool-2.4.3.
To run the tests anyway, issue:</para>
-
+ -->
<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
<!--
<para>This takes a long time, about &autoconf-fin-sbu-tests; SBUs. In addition,