Re: Uninitialized value in string ...

[Martin Frydl]

Hello Izabella,

this problem is probably caused by too many files in AC_OUTPUT. Does it print also

/usr/bin/m4: Error matching regular expression `^ *\(.*\) *$'

It was reported by Dave Benson and me. I've created Autoconf patch which should fix it.

Martin

http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/automake/2002-November/012239.html
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/automake/2002-November/012234.html

Szekely Izabella wrote:

Hello!

I use automake 1.7.1, on Read Hat Linux 7.3.
When I run automake, I get I have following error
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/bin/automake line 5149,
<GEN0> line 2.
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/bin/automake line 5149,
<GEN0> line 5.
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/bin/automake line 5149,
<GEN0> line 7.
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/bin/automake line 5149,
<GEN0> line 10.
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/bin/automake line 5149,
<GEN0> line 13.
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/bin/automake line 5149,
<GEN0> line 16.
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/bin/automake line 5149,
<GEN0> line 19.
...
...
...
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/bin/automake line 5149,
<GEN0> line 518.
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/bin/automake line 5149,
<GEN0> line 521.

Does anyone know what the below messages are all about?  Line 5149 is
like this:


while ($_ = $tracefh->getline)
    {
      chomp;
      my ($here, @args) = split /::/;
      my $macro = $args[0];

      # Alphabetical ordering please.
      if ($macro eq 'AC_CANONICAL_HOST') <==== 5149
	{
	  if (! $seen_canonical)
	    {
	      $seen_canonical = AC_CANONICAL_HOST;
	      $canonical_location = $here;
	    };
	}



Regards,
Izabella