Re: Bug: too many loops

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Matti,

* Matti wrote on Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 05:49:58PM CET:
> When trying to install an app and run ./reconf-all for the first time, I 
> always
> get this error, as you see in the logfile.
> When I run ./reconf-all a second time, the error doesn't appear and I can
> install. (not really, doesn't work yet, but I guess this has other reasons)
> 
> Any ideas what happens here?

This typically shows up when the macro file aclocal finds have some
inconsistency, or aclocal finds macros from a different Libtool version
that those which libtoolize installs into your package, or you have old
macro files lying around in your package somewhere, possibly
concatenated in some old aclocal.m4 or acinclude.m4 file.

You wrote in another mail that the problem is gone with a newer release,
but that probably just masked the issue -- a bugfix to this end has not
happened.  So if the problem reappears, please document your setup in
detail so we can debug it.

Cheers,
Ralf

> address@hidden:/Platte2/Downloads/gambas3/trunk> ./reconf-all
> libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'.
> libtoolize: copying file `./ltmain.sh'
> libtoolize: You should add the contents of the following files to 
> `aclocal.m4':
> libtoolize:   `/usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool.m4'
> libtoolize:   `/usr/local/share/aclocal/ltoptions.m4'
> libtoolize:   `/usr/local/share/aclocal/ltversion.m4'
> libtoolize:   `/usr/local/share/aclocal/ltsugar.m4'
> libtoolize:   `/usr/local/share/aclocal/lt~obsolete.m4'
> libtoolize: Remember to add `LT_INIT' to configure.ac.
> libtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to configure.ac and
> libtoolize: rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros in-tree.
> libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am.
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> autoreconf: running: aclocal
> autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
> autoreconf: configure.ac: adding subdirectory main to autoreconf
> autoreconf: Entering directory `main'
> autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4 --install
> aclocal: installing `m4/libtool.m4' from `/usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool.m4'
> aclocal: installing `m4/ltoptions.m4' from 
> `/usr/local/share/aclocal/ltoptions.m4'
> aclocal: installing `m4/ltsugar.m4' from `/usr/local/share/aclocal/ltsugar.m4'
> aclocal: installing `m4/ltversion.m4' from 
> `/usr/local/share/aclocal/ltversion.m4'
> aclocal: installing `m4/lt~obsolete.m4' from 
> `/usr/local/share/aclocal/lt~obsolete.m4'
> aclocal: installing `m4/ltdl.m4' from `/usr/local/share/aclocal/ltdl.m4'
> aclocal: ####################
> aclocal: ## Internal Error ##
> aclocal: ####################
> aclocal: Too many loops.
> aclocal: Please contact <address@hidden>.
>  at /usr/share/automake-1.10/Automake/Channels.pm line 570
>         Automake::Channels::msg('automake', '', 'Too many loops.') called at 
> /usr/share/automake-1.10/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm line 191
>         Automake::ChannelDefs::prog_error('Too many loops.') called at 
> /usr/bin/aclocal line 1060
> autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 255
> address@hidden:/Platte2/Downloads/gambas3/trunk>