* Daniel Richard G. wrote on Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:54:10AM CET: > > > > Looks like automake is as confused as you are. For now, here's a > > simple workaround, using a helper variable that is not special to > > automake: > > Oh, a workaround's not a problem; the bug is very narrow. In my case, I just > assigned the same literal value to noinst_PROGRAMS, as only one or two > program > names were ever involved.
Sure, but if you had dozens there, then it would make a difference. Others who encounter the same problem might have many. > Just wanted to bring the bogus error message to your attention, not least > because it seems remarkable that this corner case has never been addressed > before! Well, I haven't looked at this at all, but I bet it's another glitch in the code that rewrite *_PROGRAMS variables to end in `$(EXEEXT)'. This rewriting is inherently error-prone, and turns up new bugs like this one every now and then. Which is why I tend to veto new features that add more in-place variable rewriting. Cheers, Ralf
