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@gnu.org>.
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@gnu.org>"
so I think you might be interested nevertheless.
Thanks.
