GNU bug report logs - #25250
aclocal error: "too many loops" on Windows 7 (msys2 64-bit)

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Package: automake;

Reported by: Matt Postiff <pastor <at> fbcaa.org>

Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 18:21:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 33420

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From: Matt Postiff <pastor <at> fbcaa.org>
To: bug-automake <at> gnu.org
Subject: Bug report
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 13:16:17 -0500

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

Platform is an msys2 64-bit shell on Windows 7. I've built this same
program (one I'm writing) many times without this problem coming up before.
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From: Matt Postiff <pastor <at> fbcaa.org>
To: 25250 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Follow-up on "too many loops"
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 13:35:52 -0500

Running aclocal a second time was fine. I'm running the remaining of the
./configure ; make process to see if I get a decent build.
Changed bug title to 'aclocal error: "too many loops" on Windows 7 (msys2 64-bit)' from 'Bug report' Request was from Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sat, 15 Jul 2017 20:17:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
Merged 25250 33420. Request was from Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Fri, 10 Dec 2021 07:12:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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