From 7a073c19519e7b0dc83ed37a9c7e85fc679a76b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 00:30:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] bug fix

---
 ChangeLog   | 3 +++
 automake.in | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b02fd4d08..d0ac5dbda 100644
--- 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 08be6b8b1..a498778dc 100755
--- 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
-- 
2.47.2