On 2022-02-20, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > can you link to the project/source ? the snippet you posted isn't > complete, and adding a few more lines doesn't cause automake crash for me.
Here is a minimal reproducer: % cat >configure.ac <<'EOF' AC_INIT([test], [0]) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign]) AC_CONFIG_FILES([x:y z]) AC_OUTPUT EOF % touch x.am % touch z.am % autoreconf -is configure.ac:2: installing './install-sh' configure.ac:2: installing './missing' automake-1.16: error: x:y in @other_input_files [...] Critically, both x.am and z.am files are required to exist to reproduce the crash. The "x" output should be ignored by Automake (since its input filename, "y", does not end in ".in") but it apparently slightly confused by the existence of the (should not be used) x.am in the source tree. I think this crash will, in practice, only ever happen due to serious mistakes in configure.ac (i.e., I believe the reporter has used AC_CONFIG_FILES with the wrong filenames). Cheers, Nick
