From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Apr 17 15:12:26 2021 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Apr 2021 19:12:26 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44607 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lXqMk-0000Lk-4f for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2021 15:12:26 -0400 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]:39572) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lXqLR-0000Jg-4u for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2021 15:11:06 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34606) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lXqLL-0003Ft-IN for bug-automake@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2021 15:11:04 -0400 Received: from mail-ej1-x62b.google.com ([2a00:1450:4864:20::62b]:44618) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lXqLH-0005mn-N7 for bug-automake@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2021 15:10:59 -0400 Received: by mail-ej1-x62b.google.com with SMTP id e14so46863188ejz.11 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2021 12:10:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gwmail.gwu.edu; s=google; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=m3Qs82t1nuChgW8wBHYEznNnfR8AMZZnLgX4GeXuwUc=; b=FgHpiA6TydCWdUHEJ5es+MOpM2A+TWMVnkJHNTDjZWF9VUsCFf8znI7uIQwoDYwiGs kHSy7Qcc4Dhg0sZEQx/0LnbcTvx+MGcYMTdM29dx5KoLb6kNAu4t4ChQYfI8j36TNbuy fNeWXNSf649QKI6hK9pfhLJbFfGAjCHxZin8ELBWGGZEe1EYcYUlrYyWJ53uJI/ruWTX bhmaipk/3XdAku0bcua1wGzbUtENgU+i2ed4OHn18oSRZUU67G7AwUJzvl6P6BWZgVYU N319QeQ8wAuoho/89pG0D7WrOa3lCz+Sfuj53j57PJ84Mro+WLDqKgg//tXNA8I0Sedz mwxA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=m3Qs82t1nuChgW8wBHYEznNnfR8AMZZnLgX4GeXuwUc=; b=pm5uMrjK0zTDvwQ0tlYTAvsfmm2OQtqWfLXimo9cW9SEcXLGjgfb/gZr5XIuqYlkzs M44gnuxEidRpEUT+M8MRqEGhsl6LwtJEqslG7ZuhXJf8Ebthn5Du1uxqqycz2iQbZ8Yu XbNQNi31DqQcFMT6zsnvnmJUuJUJynlYLCHeoFU7UoYf5CvId/jnG+WtUUYJ86eONt7f hpq1kJv4Td3js8Zlxx/3ynVAUO4oa479UpFAaQfic1BBVAxtA3fzYncfDd4Efu8V6XrX QB5XDSyzf0FaZTnO3Yjm4qYgWmFtQp7Jbb8vsK4H0Nz/YwK1fxI53p9Id3UDhGdWHaTB 2DAg== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532/vUvPx7LaqGCLYb1CP6PHvsdgiKIoNYMBxS4N5grEMC3aCUvy IM6Gdic6nSjL8NeWRGYzzRKubwwumRmDtRwWCdhqeoLWxNkG9g== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJyLKxw+KkuiVuQqY9fekkLVVMF38ejQG7nH9Ozwd+U46GVLaynnBDdwyVrQZKWOE26I8YrPg4ChEbQRGvhI6wg= X-Received: by 2002:a17:906:86da:: with SMTP id j26mr8275457ejy.187.1618686652195; Sat, 17 Apr 2021 12:10:52 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Eric Gallager Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2021 15:10:41 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: aclocal fails with "error: too many loops" To: bug-automake@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::62b; envelope-from=egall@gwmail.gwu.edu; helo=mail-ej1-x62b.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -19 X-Spam_score: -2.0 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.0 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Spam-Score: -1.6 (-) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 17 Apr 2021 15:12:26 -0400 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Hi, I have recently been trying to update my fork of the magicseteditor project, which can be found here: https://github.com/cooljeanius/magicseteditor At first, autoconf told me: configure.ac:109: warning: AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_0X is obsolete; use AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_11 instead ...so I followed its recommendation and updated AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_0X to AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_11, and AX_CXX_HEADER_STDCXX_0X to AX_CXX_HEADER_STDCXX_11, and once I had done that, it failed with this message instead: $ autoreconf -fvi -Wall autoreconf: export WARNINGS=all autoreconf: Entering directory '.' autoreconf: running: autopoint --force autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4 --install aclocal: installing 'm4/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx.m4' from '/opt/local/share/aclocal/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx.m4' aclocal: installing 'm4/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx_11.m4' from '/opt/local/share/aclocal/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx_11.m4' aclocal: installing 'm4/ax_require_defined.m4' from '/opt/local/share/aclocal/ax_require_defined.m4' aclocal: error: too many loops aclocal: Please contact . at /opt/local/share/automake-1.16/Automake/Channels.pm line 655. Automake::Channels::msg("automake", "", "too many loops") called at /opt/local/share/automake-1.16/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm line 226 Automake::ChannelDefs::prog_error("too many loops") called at /opt/local/bin/aclocal line 1187 autoreconf: error: aclocal failed with exit status: 255 $ Since it said to report this here, that is what I am doing. I am using automake 1.16.3 as installed by MacPorts. Any idea what's going on? Thanks, Eric Gallager From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sun May 09 21:28:39 2021 Received: (at 47848) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 May 2021 01:28:39 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56842 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lfuit-000381-7Q for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2021 21:28:39 -0400 Received: from freefriends.org ([96.88.95.60]:36798) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lfuio-00037q-4z for 47848@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2021 21:28:38 -0400 X-Envelope-From: karl@freefriends.org Received: from freefriends.org (freefriends.org [96.88.95.60]) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id 14A1SWsu008006 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 9 May 2021 19:28:33 -0600 Received: (from apache@localhost) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id 14A1SWv2008005; Sun, 9 May 2021 19:28:32 -0600 Date: Sun, 9 May 2021 19:28:32 -0600 Message-Id: <202105100128.14A1SWv2008005@freefriends.org> From: Karl Berry To: egall@gwmail.gwu.edu Subject: Re: bug#47848: aclocal fails with "error: too many loops" In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 47848 Cc: 47848@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) Ei Eric, Automake::ChannelDefs::prog_error("too many loops") called at /opt/local/bin/aclocal line 1187 I've never seen that error before. The comment in aclocal where the check is done says: # We may have to rerun aclocal if some file have been installed, but # it should not happen more than once. So, hmm. https://github.com/cooljeanius/magicseteditor ... automake 1.16.3 as installed by MacPorts. Any idea what's going on? Nothing springs to mind, sorry. Is it reproducible? Any chance you can cut down your configure.ac and project to something smaller? Else I guess I can try taking your project and making the same change (eventually). Thanks for the report. --karl From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sun May 09 21:56:21 2021 Received: (at 47848) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 May 2021 01:56:21 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56861 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lfv9d-0003lL-DX for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2021 21:56:20 -0400 Received: from mail-ed1-f49.google.com ([209.85.208.49]:45871) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lfuly-0003Da-Nr for 47848@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2021 21:31:51 -0400 Received: by mail-ed1-f49.google.com with SMTP id s7so12100492edq.12 for <47848@debbugs.gnu.org>; Sun, 09 May 2021 18:31:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gwmail.gwu.edu; s=google; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=8V5uyOn/1tVgQZFuggLOSkXNoD3bRF6AT6/SU81wpMI=; b=Az3y+9KIDBBZjkQGZxfKHRffXBDSWUzFI3TDOBPze8h4Tmgmo0dg0S473ir0tgfh7H mHdcWr/JkVfjlguIGet9Pyj3r4Ty4DF5emPkqziSYPIssegvQuHLwlMGoGIy0Vc1LxbH n6bWCRMp5y3AoAz0NK7bNotqbWnVuGbLOq3Vt9evHcVgiwz7fwf0/iPaTh5vZ0lYxGkH IK0CHypE4c52nj0hIVlFzXZEFTovdtl41b8KymIDoRshi01PO0N3dHqafabhDzr/AUJX 8HH0pd4QrI6dORqvXgzHPYKDzrUE+eI2zuEwsMYSssMF1m+mQAzoBOJbYU0zTYIAUIyu LFVg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=8V5uyOn/1tVgQZFuggLOSkXNoD3bRF6AT6/SU81wpMI=; b=pH8Sme9pNNKTfCdMshutYSoW4k72Scy9/4RlgcVWp/o72fLw6kohnbY5uno686pZAi JzG6YEUgqOds4FSrmspXvTjHfyO63F/f1zQkToQCR0xoCFci0P7EOuWeP3+SPmLgzw3N Mo0fAI9CFoiz3MlmiN8DAl3PfmgenynA6E9LUPdvQ6kU6jrqbtd9RIiUnus1mBpEZJ2/ aWc7mZhkrFKSqvl/sTFAL0oktQSk9kVsD08+P3us6RAvc5/00pQnDmslLL+waPM46WQw yoiMU8PIAUQ4t6rrTJ12WZ2e9MtNE5Xz1N5qDfC7zCDd0jkK7KQ26jfJdtLrd3uYKWFm eTsg== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532gQ3Eq4JHoMPTmF+QECgxDzbPy6y/FawkrQROyiMPpcrT+Aepy R6piAMHH2SgC5iPMiZifM3/hBVm9ZDrzhUmD7Htw8w== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJyQJZ06SWyseORE/u7hhxyA7fvhTgeX4XKX0kolJHI8ne5U5hXdwnM1DJUMM0lAm4ESmqbTmDexHTQe8r/8q9Q= X-Received: by 2002:aa7:cf06:: with SMTP id a6mr26372427edy.340.1620610304825; Sun, 09 May 2021 18:31:44 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <202105100128.14A1SWv2008005@freefriends.org> In-Reply-To: <202105100128.14A1SWv2008005@freefriends.org> From: Eric Gallager Date: Sun, 9 May 2021 21:31:33 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: bug#47848: aclocal fails with "error: too many loops" To: Karl Berry Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 47848 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 09 May 2021 21:56:16 -0400 Cc: 47848@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 9:28 PM Karl Berry wrote: > > Ei Eric, > > Automake::ChannelDefs::prog_error("too many loops") called at > /opt/local/bin/aclocal line 1187 > > I've never seen that error before. The comment in aclocal where the > check is done says: > > # We may have to rerun aclocal if some file have been installed, but > # it should not happen more than once. > > So, hmm. > > https://github.com/cooljeanius/magicseteditor > ... > automake 1.16.3 as installed by MacPorts. Any idea what's going on? > > Nothing springs to mind, sorry. > > Is it reproducible? Any chance you can cut down your configure.ac and > project to something smaller? Else I guess I can try taking your project > and making the same change (eventually). > > Thanks for the report. --karl > Nope, I can't seem to reproduce it, unfortunately; after trying again more recently, it started working again, and I'm not sure what might have changed in my environment to cause that to happen... sorry, this can be closed... Eric From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Mon May 10 13:30:08 2021 Received: (at 47848) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 May 2021 17:30:08 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34165 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lg9jM-0004bY-1t for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2021 13:30:08 -0400 Received: from freefriends.org ([96.88.95.60]:50940) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lg9jI-0004aH-2I; Mon, 10 May 2021 13:30:06 -0400 X-Envelope-From: karl@freefriends.org Received: from freefriends.org (freefriends.org [96.88.95.60]) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id 14AHU2IR002581 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 10 May 2021 11:30:03 -0600 Received: (from apache@localhost) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id 14AHU2Zu002549; Mon, 10 May 2021 11:30:02 -0600 Date: Mon, 10 May 2021 11:30:02 -0600 Message-Id: <202105101730.14AHU2Zu002549@freefriends.org> From: Karl Berry To: egall@gwmail.gwu.edu Subject: Re: bug#47848: aclocal fails with "error: too many loops" In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 47848 Cc: 47848@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) more recently, it started working again ... Not sure if that's good or bad, but at least you can get on with life :). Thanks for checking back. this can be closed... Closing. --thanks, karl. From unknown Fri Jun 20 18:15:04 2025 Received: (at fakecontrol) by fakecontrolmessage; To: internal_control@debbugs.gnu.org From: Debbugs Internal Request Subject: Internal Control Message-Id: bug archived. Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2021 11:24:06 +0000 User-Agent: Fakemail v42.6.9 # This is a fake control message. # # The action: # bug archived. thanks # This fakemail brought to you by your local debbugs # administrator