Re: MIssing "location" in automake-1.6.3 error message

[Harlan Stenn]

>  Harlan> I'm seeing the following with automake-1.6.3:
>  Harlan> % automake
>  Harlan> ...
>  Harlan> Use of uninitialized value in hash element at automake line 8516
>  Harlan> Use of uninitialized value in list assignment at automake line 8505
>  Harlan> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) at automake line 850
> 6
>  Harlan> : warning: automake does not support bin_PROGRAMS being defined cond
> itionally
> 
>  Harlan> Note the missing "location" of the Makefile.am in the
>  Harlan> last line of the example.
> 
> Could you explain how to reproduce this?
> 
> I've tried
> 
> if COND
>   bin_PROGRAMS = foo
> endif
> 
> but this didn't yield any warnings.

Try multiple conditionals each defining bin_PROGRAMS.

I could give you a real example except this project has a Lot of
Makefile.am's in it and I'm not sure which one has the problem...

I'll see if I can find the message in a run from automake-1.5.

H