Unable to build GNU automake - help2man can't get `--help' info from automake-1.16

Question

I'm trying to compile and build automake 1.16 and it fails in the following way:

help2man: can't get `--help' info from automake-1.16
Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
make: *** [doc/automake-1.16.1] Error 255

I have searched and found similar issues on Stackoverflow and Github where the solution is to "yum install perl-Thread-Queue"

But I do not have root access. How do I go about compiling automake successfully without installing "perl-Thread-Queue"? I need this specific version of automake for compiling another package.

Answer 1

must chage soure code like that automake-1.16/bin/automake.in +use List::Util 'reduce'; +sub none (&@) { my $code=shift; reduce { $a && !$code->(local $_ = $b) } 1, @_; } https://github.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew-core/pull/6352/commits/dec6db52ad887a27210e0521a0bc5c271a7c9332