*.in strangeness

[Harlan Stenn]

Some of you might remember a message I posted here a while ago where I was
(implicitly) using LIBOBJS (or whatever, it was a side effect of
AC_REPLCE_FUNCS) and getting messages about "*.c" not being found.

I "solved" this last problem (with 1.5 and 2.53) by changing my
Makefile.am's to not use that sort of logic anymore.

Well, I'm working on a different project and I thought I'd lose some of the
AC_CONFIG_FILES($foo) and replace them with things like:

 test foo && AC_CONFIG_FILES(foo/Makefile)

and discovered that automake Really Hated seeing that in a configure.in
file.

So I changed the logic to:

...
AC_CONFIG_FILES(Makefile)
AC_CONFIG_FILES(snmplib/Makefile)
AC_CONFIG_FILES(agent/Makefile)
AC_CONFIG_FILES(apps/Makefile)
AC_CONFIG_FILES(apps/snmpnetstat/Makefile)
AC_CONFIG_FILES(agent/mibgroup/Makefile)
AC_CONFIG_FILES(local/Makefile)
case "$PERLPROG" in
 '') ;;
 *) AC_CONFIG_FILES(local/fixproc)
    AC_CONFIG_FILES(local/snmpcheck)
    AC_CONFIG_FILES(local/tkmib)
    AC_CONFIG_FILES(local/mib2c)
    AC_CONFIG_FILES(local/ipf-mod.pl)
    AC_CONFIG_FILES(local/rsnmp)
    AC_CONFIG_FILES(local/snmpconf)
    ;;
esac
AC_CONFIG_FILES(testing/Makefile)
AC_CONFIG_FILES(man/Makefile)
AC_CONFIG_FILES(ov/Makefile)
AC_CONFIG_FILES(mibs/Makefile)  # line 2029 (this comment isn't in the code)
AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS(time-stamp, [echo timestamp > stamp-h])
AC_OUTPUT

and now I get the following turd in Makefile.in:

 ...
 *: $(top_builddir)/config.status *.in
        cd $(top_builddir) && CONFIG_FILES=$@ CONFIG_HEADERS= CONFIG_LINKS=
$(SHELL) ./config.status
 ...

and the following message:

 % autoreconf
 autoreconf: `aclocal.m4' is updated
 configure.in:7: warning: AC_ARG_PROGRAM was called before  AC_CANONICAL_TARGET
 configure.in: 2029: required file `./*.in' not found
 autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
  at /.../autoreconf line 368
 % automake
 configure.in: 2029: required file `./*.in' not found
 %

I get the same message with automake-1.6.1.

Ideas?

H