bug#42635: closed (uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/bin/automake line 4953.)

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/usr/bin/automake line 4953.
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #42635,
regarding uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/bin/automake line 4953.
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> uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/bin/automake line 4953.
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> Fri, 31 Jul 2020 16:48:49 +0200
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> Hi,
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> This perl warning occurs with automake 1.16.2 (but is much older) when
> TEST_EXTENSIONS is set to the empty string (I don't want to remove
> extensions before appending .log) and EXEEXT is defined.
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> % cat configure.ac
> AC_INIT([foo],[1.0])
> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])
> AC_PROG_CC  dnl comment this line to make the warning disappear
> AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
> AC_OUTPUT
> % cat Makefile.am
> TEST_EXTENSIONS =
> LOG_COMPILER = echo
> TESTS = foo.test
> % touch foo.test
> % autoreconf -fi
> configure.ac:3: installing './compile'
> configure.ac:2: installing './install-sh'
> configure.ac:2: installing './missing'
> Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/bin/automake line 4953.
> parallel-tests: installing './test-driver'
> % nl -ba `command -v automake` | sed -n '4951,4955p'
>   4951            if ($handle_exeext)
>   4952              {
>   4953                unshift (@test_suffixes, $at_exeext)
>   4954                  unless $test_suffixes[0] eq $at_exeext;
>   4955              }
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> -- 
> Alexandre Duret-Lutz
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#42635: uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/bin/automake line 4953. Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 17:28:11 -0600

    Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/bin/automake line 4953.

Thanks Alexandre. I installed this patch that I hope fixes it.

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