Provide an error location for invalid property assignments

... of the form "x.y.z: value", where there is no module x.y. The errors
printed in this case did not have a location, because none of the value
items are proper module instances and we did not keep track of the chain
of parent items.

Change-Id: I2da4da7beb5bd6f6d185a63c90d42340c9e30492
Reviewed-by: Joerg Bornemann <joerg.bornemann@qt.io>

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/auto/language/testdata/erroneous/original-in-export-item2.qbs b/tests/auto/language/testdata/erroneous/original-in-export-item2.qbs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d932d4aee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/auto/language/testdata/erroneous/original-in-export-item2.qbs
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+import qbs
+
+Project {
+    Product {
+        name: "a"
+        Export {
+            x.y.z: original
+        }
+    }
+    Product {
+        name: "b"
+        Depends { name: "a" }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/auto/language/tst_language.cpp b/tests/auto/language/tst_language.cpp
index 3c4637018..a82646e4e 100644
--- a/tests/auto/language/tst_language.cpp
+++ b/tests/auto/language/tst_language.cpp
@@ -880,6 +880,9 @@ void TestLanguage::erroneousFiles_data()
     QTest::newRow("original-in-export-item")
             << "original-in-export-item.qbs:7:32.*The special value 'original' cannot be used "
                "on the right-hand side of a property declaration.";
+    QTest::newRow("original-in-export-item2")
+            << "original-in-export-item2.qbs:6:9.*Item 'x.y' is not declared. Did you forget "
+               "to add a Depends item";
     QTest::newRow("mismatching-multiplex-dependency")
             << "mismatching-multiplex-dependency.qbs:9:5.*Dependency from product "
                "'b \\{\"architecture\":\"mips\"\\}' to product 'a \\{\"architecture\":\"mips\"\\}'"