bug fix

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b02fd4d086ee8250a6c1931579c4ceb115f09436..d0ac5dbda4ae13d1e66cde7a2050124c62bd8801 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 Sat Oct 25 12:39:19 1997  Tom Tromey  <tromey@cygnus.com>
 
+       * automake.in (scan_one_configure_file): Skip empty string for
+       Perl 4.  From Assar Westerlund.
+
        * config.guess, config.sub, texinfo.tex: New versions from FSF.
 
 Fri Oct 24 23:15:09 1997  Tom Tromey  <tromey@cygnus.com>

diff --git a/automake.in b/automake.in
index 08be6b8b128c0d6b6107a4845684ea24569bec42..a498778dc6fffed77056e62bf636e5a73745878d 100755 (executable)
--- a/automake.in
+++ b/automake.in
@@ -3961,7 +3961,8 @@ sub scan_one_configure_file
            # Look at potential Makefile.am's.
            foreach (split)
            {
-               next if $_ eq "\\";
+               # Must skip empty string for Perl 4.
+               next if $_ eq "\\" || $_ eq '';
 
                # Handle $local:$input syntax.  Note that we ignore
                # every input file past the first, though we keep