GNU bug report logs - #24807
aclocal: too many loops error with Autoconf archives macros

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From: 夢巫子 (Yumiko) <yumiko <at> fumu-no-kagomeko.kueea.info>
To: bug-automake <at> gnu.org
Subject: Bug
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 03:47:37 +0200

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$ autoreconf -if
aclocal-1.15: overwriting 'm4/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx.m4' \
 with '/usr/share/aclocal/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx.m4'
aclocal-1.15: overwriting 'm4/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx_11.m4' \
 with '/usr/share/aclocal/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx_11.m4'
aclocal-1.15: installing 'm4/ax_require_defined.m4' \
 from '/usr/share/aclocal/ax_require_defined.m4'
aclocal-1.15: error: too many loops
aclocal-1.15: Please contact <bug-automake <at> gnu.org>.
 at /usr/share/automake-1.15/Automake/Channels.pm line 662.
	Automake::Channels::msg("automake", "", "too many loops") \
   called at /usr/share/automake-1.15/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm line 212
	Automake::ChannelDefs::prog_error("too many loops") \
   called at /usr/bin/aclocal-1.15 line 1188
autoreconf-2.69: aclocal failed with exit status: 255

automake-1.15
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69

My system is Gentoo Linux. There might be patches.
Starting autoreconf again with the same arguments finishes without
errors. Shell is ZSH.

configure.ac and Makefile.am are simple. Do you need them?

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Message #8 received at 24807 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org>
To: 夢巫子 (Yumiko) <yumiko <at> fumu-no-kagomeko.kueea.info>
Cc: 24807 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24807: Bug
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 16:24:25 +0200

Hello,

夢巫子 (Yumiko) <yumiko <at> fumu-no-kagomeko.kueea.info> writes:

> $ autoreconf -if
> aclocal-1.15: overwriting 'm4/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx.m4' \
>  with '/usr/share/aclocal/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx.m4'
> aclocal-1.15: overwriting 'm4/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx_11.m4' \
>  with '/usr/share/aclocal/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx_11.m4'
> aclocal-1.15: installing 'm4/ax_require_defined.m4' \
>  from '/usr/share/aclocal/ax_require_defined.m4'
> aclocal-1.15: error: too many loops
> aclocal-1.15: Please contact <bug-automake <at> gnu.org>.
>  at /usr/share/automake-1.15/Automake/Channels.pm line 662.
> 	Automake::Channels::msg("automake", "", "too many loops") \
>    called at /usr/share/automake-1.15/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm line 212
> 	Automake::ChannelDefs::prog_error("too many loops") \
>    called at /usr/bin/aclocal-1.15 line 1188
> autoreconf-2.69: aclocal failed with exit status: 255
>
> automake-1.15
> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69
>
> My system is Gentoo Linux. There might be patches.
> Starting autoreconf again with the same arguments finishes without
> errors. Shell is ZSH.
>
> configure.ac and Makefile.am are simple. Do you need them?

The issue seems to come from a bad interaction between aclocal and the
macros from the Autoconf Archive (m4/ax_....m4)

Can you recheck if the issue is still valid with Automake 1.15.1 and the
latest version of those macros from the autoconf archive?

If the issue is still here, a tarball including those macros and a
minimal example would help us debbuging it.

Thank you for the bug report.

-- 
Mathieu Lirzin
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