Perl 5.8.7 is from 2005 and automake 1.15 is from 2014. I'm not sure (and my cursory duckduck'ing didn't turn up anything conclusive) but my hunch is that your perl is too ancient for automake's tastes. I actually have a copy of automake 1.15 installed and I looking at line 525 in my copy of aclocal I don't see any perl code which would trigger that prototype warning though so . . . /shrug

If you can find it and/or compile it yourself you might have more luck with a contemporaneous perl version. RHEL6 was still shipping with 5.10 so that version might be worth a try.

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In reply to Re: compiling perl in solaris SPARC by Fletch
in thread compiling perl in solaris SPARC by greenelephant

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