GNU bug report logs - #75605
aclocal: error: too many loops

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Hi Santiago,

  at /usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/Channels.pm line 655.

The current version of Automake is 1.17. Hopefully you can try against
that.  I seem to remember some sort of bug relating to that "too many
loops" error, but who knows.

    apt-get source alpine
    cd alpine-2.26+dfsg
    dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -b

I'm sorry, but I can't reproduce anything this way. I don't use Debian.
Please make a tarball of the necessary files, if 1.17 doesn't fix
it. (Or the whole thing if necessary, although obviously the smaller the
better from my point of view.) --thanks, karl.

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Hello.

I get the error in the Subject when I try to build the Debian alpine package
from source on a Debian unstable chroot.

Inside an unstable chroot with the build-depends already installed, these are the
steps to reproduce:

apt-get source alpine
cd alpine-2.26+dfsg
dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -b

and this is what happens:

[...]
aclocal: overwriting 'm4/lib-ld.m4' with '/usr/share/aclocal/lib-ld.m4'
aclocal: overwriting 'm4/lib-link.m4' with '/usr/share/aclocal/lib-link.m4'
aclocal: overwriting 'm4/lib-prefix.m4' with '/usr/share/aclocal/lib-prefix.m4'
aclocal: overwriting 'm4/libtool.m4' with '/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4'
aclocal: overwriting 'm4/ltoptions.m4' with '/usr/share/aclocal/ltoptions.m4'
aclocal: overwriting 'm4/ltversion.m4' with '/usr/share/aclocal/ltversion.m4'
aclocal: overwriting 'm4/nls.m4' with '/usr/share/aclocal/nls.m4'
aclocal: overwriting 'm4/po.m4' with '/usr/share/aclocal/po.m4'
aclocal: overwriting 'm4/progtest.m4' with '/usr/share/aclocal/progtest.m4'
aclocal: installing 'm4/intlmacosx.m4' from '/usr/share/aclocal/intlmacosx.m4'
aclocal: error: too many loops
aclocal: Please contact <bug-automake@HIDDEN>.
  at /usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/Channels.pm line 655.
	Automake::Channels::msg("automake", "", "too many loops") called at /usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm line 226
	Automake::ChannelDefs::prog_error("too many loops") called at /usr/bin/aclocal line 1187
autoreconf: error: aclocal failed with exit status: 255
dh_autoreconf: error: autoreconf -f -i returned exit code 1
make: *** [debian/rules:49: binary] Error 255
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2

Note that there may be more than one issue here, as the package still needs
to be fixed for make 4.4.x:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1089250

However, this error is new and it says "Please contact <bug-automake@HIDDEN>"
so I think you might be interested nevertheless.

Thanks.