GNU bug report logs - #47848
aclocal fails with "error: too many loops"

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Package: automake;

Reported by: Eric Gallager <egall <at> gwmail.gwu.edu>

Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2021 19:13:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
To: egall <at> gwmail.gwu.edu
Cc: 47848 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47848: aclocal fails with "error: too many loops"
Date: Sun, 9 May 2021 19:28:32 -0600
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





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