automake @1.14.1 Configure error - autoconf doesn't work

[land.apfel@…]

Configuring automake fails with the following message:

:info:configure checking whether autoconf is installed... yes
:info:configure checking whether autoconf works... no
:info:configure configure: error: The installed version of autoconf does not work.
:info:configure     Please check config.log for error messages before this one.

automake config.log:

configure:2956: checking whether autoconf works
configure:2963: cd conftest && autoconf -o /dev/null conftest.ac
./configure: line 2974: 20823 Segmentation fault      $am_AUTOCONF -o /dev/null conftest.ac

[land.apfel@…]

According to a crash log it seems that perl is actually crashing inside /bin/sh, which seems to be where autoconf is running in (see Crash Log attached).

Some lines before the segmentation fault in config.log appears, it checks for the perl version:

configure:2768: /opt/local/bin/perl --version

So I assume it tries to run something in perl which then crashes.

[land.apfel@…]

Problem solved. It was a problem with my installed perl version. After installing port "perl5.18" and running

port upgrade --enforce-variants perl5 -perl5_12 +perl5_18

I could build automake perfectly fine.