Re: automake-1.9 Internal Error

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Rui,

Thanks for the bug report.

* Rui Reis wrote on Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 07:53:14PM CEST:
> I'm getting an error while building a piece a software and I think
> it's an automake bug. Trace here: 
> 
> +++ Mon Jul  3 18:11:07 WEST 2006
> ===>  Building for nepenthes-0.1.8

> && /bin/sh 
> /usr/ports/mystuff/nepenthes/w-nepenthes-0.1.8/nepenthes-0.1.8/missing
> --run automake-1.9 --foreign  nepenthes-core/src/Makefile Use of
> uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/local/bin/automake-1.9 line
> 4673, <GEN0> line 1. Use of uninitialized value in exists
> at /usr/local/bin/automake-1.9 line 4675, <GEN0> line 1. Use of
> uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string
> at /usr/local/bin/automake-1.9 line 4675, <GEN0> line 1. 
> automake-1.9: #################### 
> automake-1.9: ## Internal Error ## 
> automake-1.9: #################### 
> automake-1.9: unrequested trace `' 
> automake-1.9: Please contact <address@hidden>.
>  at /usr/local/share/automake-1.9/Automake/Channels.pm line 562
>       Automake::Channels::msg('automake', '', 'unrequested trace `
> \'') called at /usr/local/share/automake-1.9/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm
> line 191 Automake::ChannelDefs::prog_error('unrequested trace `\'')
> called at /usr/local/bin/automake-1.9 line 4675
> Automake::scan_autoconf_traces('configure.ac') called
> at /usr/local/bin/automake-1.9 line 4877 Automake::scan_autoconf_files
> () called at /usr/local/bin/automake-1.9 line 7493 *** Error code 1

I think more information is necessary in order to analyze and fix this.
First, which exact automake version is this (there are several 1.9.x
releases)?  automake --version can answer this.

Second, it would be very helpful to have a small example Makefile.am
or example package that helps to reproduce this bug.

Which system is this on, by the way?

Cheers,
Ralf