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aclocal: too many loops error with Autoconf archives macros

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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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