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

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Harlan" == Harlan Stenn <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

 Harlan> Try multiple conditionals each defining bin_PROGRAMS.

Thanks, this "worked".

% cat Makefile.am
if COND1
  bin_PROGRAMS = foo
endif
if COND2
  bin_PROGRAMS = bar
endif
% aclocal-1.6
% automake-1.6 --foreign
Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /home/adl/usr/bin/automake-1.6 
line 8459.
Use of uninitialized value in list assignment at /home/adl/usr/bin/automake-1.6 
line 8448.
: warning: automake does not support bin_PROGRAMS being defined conditionally
Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /home/adl/usr/bin/automake-1.6 
line 8459.
Use of uninitialized value in list assignment at /home/adl/usr/bin/automake-1.6 
line 8448.
: warning: automake does not support bin_PROGRAMS being defined conditionally
% aclocal-1.6c
% automake-1.6c --foreign
Makefile.am:2: automake does not support bin_PROGRAMS being defined 
conditionally

The perl warnings and the missing location appear to be fixed in
the CVS version.

Still I'm not sure I understand the warning.

If Automake allows

  if COND1
    bin_PROGRAMS = foo
  endif

why does it disallow

  if COND1
    bin_PROGRAMS = foo
  endif
  if COND2
    bin_PROGRAMS = bar
  endif

?  

If course it will become a problem if COND1 and COND2 are both
true, but this is a user error we don't consider in other parts
of Automake (e.g. these parallel definitions are allowed by
&conditional_ambiguous_p).

Tom, am I missing something?
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz