Windows | build fails for autoconf 2.72

[shawnlaffan]

It seems autoconf 2.72 does not like one of the paths when running a share build on Windows when using Strawberry Perl (5.40 and 5.36). See error below.

Editing the alienfile to download version 2.71 gets things to build again.

I've not been able to identify which path causes the problems with 2.72. Prepending Alien::MSYS::msys_path to the path, changing directory into the build dir and running make VERBOSE=1 proceeds without problem.

Alien::Build::CommandSequence> + make
make[1]: Entering directory `/c/cpanm/work/1730696932.2904/Alien-autoconf-0.20/_alien/build_0FtR/autoconf-2.72'
make  all-am
make[1]: execvp: make: File or path name too long
make[1]: *** [all] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/cpanm/work/1730696932.2904/Alien-autoconf-0.20/_alien/build_0FtR/autoconf-2.72'
external command failed at C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/Alien/Build/CommandSequence.pm line 88.
gmake: *** [Makefile:1040: _alien/mm/build] Error 2
! Installing Alien::autoconf failed. See C:\cpanm\work\1730696932.2904\build.log for details. Retry with --force to force install it.
Searching Alien::automake (0.18) on cpanmetadb ...
Unpacking Alien-automake-0.18.tar.gz
FAIL