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Re: recursion limit of 1024 exceeded


From: Dagobert Michelsen
Subject: Re: recursion limit of 1024 exceeded
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2020 13:13:01 +0100

Hi Bruno,

Am 11.12.2020 um 17:01 schrieb Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>:
>> dam@experimental10x [global]:/home/dam/work/gnulib > PATH=/opt/csw/gnu:$PATH 
>> ./gnulib-tool --create-testdir --dir=./testdir --single-configure 
>> --without-privileged-tests
> 
> On a glibc system, this command line works fine. It takes 1 or 2 hours,
> though.

Yes, similar on Solaris.

>> executing aclocal -I glm4
>> gm4:configure.ac:4574: recursion limit of 1024 exceeded, use -L<N> to change 
>> it
> 
> You gave `m4 --version`. But what is `autoconf --version` and
> `automake --version`?

Sure:

dam@experimental10x [global]:/home/dam/work/gnulib > m4 --version  
m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.18  
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.  
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  
  
Written by Rene' Seindal.  
dam@experimental10x [global]:/home/dam/work/gnulib > autoconf --version  
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69  
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  
License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later  
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html>  
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  
  
Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.  
dam@experimental10x [global]:/home/dam/work/gnulib > automake --version  
automake (GNU automake) 1.16.1  
Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later 
<https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>  
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  


m4 should be current, meanwhile I tried to update autoconf to 2.70 with
3 unexpected failures and automake to 14 unexpected failures which I will
report on the respective mailing lists.
Do you think the error could be from outdated versions of these two?


Best regards

  — Dago

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