Re: "Failed to compile regexp" trying to run Stow on Ubuntu

On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 02:02:44AM +0000, seanh wrote:
> Can anyone get Stow working on Ubuntu 14.04?
> 
> $ sudo apt-get install stow
> $ stow -vd ~/stow my_package
> Failed to compile regexp: Unmatched ) in regex; marked by <-- HERE in
> m/^( <-- HERE $/ at /usr/share/perl5/Stow.pm line 1347, <REGEXPS> line
> 1.

Thanks for the report.  That's very weird, and I cannot reproduce it
in a 14.04 docker container.  Please can you describe your tree
structure, e.g. via the output of `tree ~/stow', and also could you
replace `die' with `confess' on line 1350 and share the output after
rerunning stow?