Re: recursion limit of 1024 exceeded

[Paul Eggert]

On 12/12/20 4:13 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> 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 Do you think the error could be from outdated versions of these two?

It's possible, since I just installed some patches into Gnulib related to 
Autoconf 2.70. I did test those patches with Autoconf 2.69 too (as patched 
for Fedora 33), so if the problem is Autoconf related, most likely it's a 
problem fixed in the Fedora patches for Autoconf 2.69 which means you would 
be better off with Autoconf 2.70.

Despite my fondness and nostalgia for Solaris, I don't bother with testing 
gnulib-tool on Solaris 10 because Solaris 10 ships with GNU m4 1.4.2, 
Autoconf 2.59, and Automake 1.8.3, and so it's no longer a suitable porting 
target for Gnulib development. That is, although you can build from 
Gnulib-based tarballs on Solaris 10, you can't build from Git development 
trees (Solaris 10 doesn't even have Git) without doing a lot of work and 
it's not worth the effort to me. Instead, I suggest running './gnulib-tool 
--create-testdir --dir FOO ...' on a more up-to-date platform, copying FOO 
to Solaris 10, and then testing just './configure && make' on the copy of 
FOO on Solaris 10.