This patch eliminates warnings like this by escaping left brace: Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(.*)\${ <-- HERE ?([A-Z_]+)}?(.*)$/ at /usr/local/bin/intltool-update line 1065. Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\${ <-- HERE ?AC_PACKAGE_NAME}?/ at /usr/local/bin/intltool-update line 1193. when building ports involving intltool (gitg, gnome-builder etc) --- intltool-update.in.orig 2015-03-09 01:39:54 UTC +++ intltool-update.in @@ -1062,7 +1062,7 @@ sub SubstituteVariable } } - if ($str =~ /^(.*)\${?([A-Z_]+)}?(.*)$/) + if ($str =~ /^(.*)\$\{?([A-Z_]+)}?(.*)$/) { my $rest = $3; my $untouched = $1; @@ -1190,10 +1190,10 @@ sub FindPackageName $name =~ s/\(+$//g; $version =~ s/\(+$//g; - $varhash{"PACKAGE_NAME"} = $name if (not $name =~ /\${?AC_PACKAGE_NAME}?/); - $varhash{"PACKAGE"} = $name if (not $name =~ /\${?PACKAGE}?/); - $varhash{"PACKAGE_VERSION"} = $version if (not $name =~ /\${?AC_PACKAGE_VERSION}?/); - $varhash{"VERSION"} = $version if (not $name =~ /\${?VERSION}?/); + $varhash{"PACKAGE_NAME"} = $name if (not $name =~ /\$\{?AC_PACKAGE_NAME}?/); + $varhash{"PACKAGE"} = $name if (not $name =~ /\$\{?PACKAGE}?/); + $varhash{"PACKAGE_VERSION"} = $version if (not $name =~ /\$\{?AC_PACKAGE_VERSION}?/); + $varhash{"VERSION"} = $version if (not $name =~ /\$\{?VERSION}?/); } if ($conf_source =~ /^AC_INIT\(([^,\)]+),([^,\)]+)[,]?([^,\)]+)?/m) @@ -1219,11 +1219,11 @@ sub FindPackageName $version =~ s/\(+$//g; $bugurl =~ s/\(+$//g if (defined $bugurl); - $varhash{"PACKAGE_NAME"} = $name if (not $name =~ /\${?AC_PACKAGE_NAME}?/); - $varhash{"PACKAGE"} = $name if (not $name =~ /\${?PACKAGE}?/); - $varhash{"PACKAGE_VERSION"} = $version if (not $name =~ /\${?AC_PACKAGE_VERSION}?/); - $varhash{"VERSION"} = $version if (not $name =~ /\${?VERSION}?/); - $varhash{"PACKAGE_BUGREPORT"} = $bugurl if (defined $bugurl and not $bugurl =~ /\${?\w+}?/); + $varhash{"PACKAGE_NAME"} = $name if (not $name =~ /\$\{?AC_PACKAGE_NAME}?/); + $varhash{"PACKAGE"} = $name if (not $name =~ /\$\{?PACKAGE}?/); + $varhash{"PACKAGE_VERSION"} = $version if (not $name =~ /\$\{?AC_PACKAGE_VERSION}?/); + $varhash{"VERSION"} = $version if (not $name =~ /\$\{?VERSION}?/); + $varhash{"PACKAGE_BUGREPORT"} = $bugurl if (defined $bugurl and not $bugurl =~ /\$\{?\w+}?/); } # \s makes this not work, why?