Re: automake-1.17 fails with latest Perl (5.41.8) - Possible precedence problem between ! and numeric eq (==)

I have to admit I don't much like any method Jacob mentioned, or
anything else I can think of (sed ...) to munge core source files.

I don't know about the past, but I've never knowingly ignored a Perl
warning that's been reported or that I've seen. Going to these lengths
to have fatal warnings in development seems like a cure worse than the
disease to me. FWIW ... -k