bug#49901: Bug in build c-ares

2021-09-19 Thread Karl Berry
It would be good to find a way to improve aclocal in the way that Nick suggests. Marking this bug as "needs help" ... -k

bug#49901: Bug in build c-ares [too many loops]

2021-09-01 Thread Thomas Jahns
On 8/17/21 7:06 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: > If you really need something like this to support bootstrapping with > Autoconf 2.57 (which is getting close to 20 years old now!), I suggest > you find another solution that doesn't involve redefining the internals > on newer Autoconf versions. I found th

bug#49901: Bug in build c-ares [too many loops]

2021-08-17 Thread Nick Bowler
On 17/08/2021, Brad House via Bug reports for Automake wrote: > This ended up being the fix to needing to run autoreconf -fi multiple > times: > https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/commit/e73fb47 Probably an OK workaround. I suspect the effect of this change is to get aclocal to pull in the ax_requ

bug#49901: Bug in build c-ares [too many loops]

2021-08-17 Thread Nick Bowler
On 17/08/2021, Brad House via Bug reports for Automake wrote: > On 8/17/21 1:06 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: >> On 2021-08-17, Brad House via Bug reports for Automake >> wrote: >>> I'm one of the maintainers of the c-ares project at >>> https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares and have had a couple of users re

bug#49901: Bug in build c-ares [too many loops]

2021-08-17 Thread Brad House via Bug reports for Automake
This ended up being the fix to needing to run autoreconf -fi multiple times: https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/commit/e73fb47 Which appears to not be specific to c-ares as we got the logic from: https://github.com/fenrus75/powertop/pull/82 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1835638 After

bug#49901: Bug in build c-ares [too many loops]

2021-08-17 Thread Brad House via Bug reports for Automake
On 8/17/21 1:06 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: On 2021-08-17, Brad House via Bug reports for Automake wrote: I'm one of the maintainers of the c-ares project at https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares and have had a couple of users report this issue. I took a quick glance and I found this: https://git

bug#49901: Bug in build c-ares [too many loops]

2021-08-17 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2021-08-17, Brad House via Bug reports for Automake wrote: > I'm one of the maintainers of the c-ares project at > https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares and have had a couple of users report > this issue. I took a quick glance and I found this: https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/blob/main/m4/zz60-

bug#49901: Bug in build c-ares

2021-08-17 Thread Денис Эпиков
Sorry, I am not qualified to troubleshoot this problem пт, 6 авг. 2021 г. в 00:41, Karl Berry : > aclocal: error: too many loops > > 1) Thanks for the report. > 2) Agreed there is a bug somewhere. > 3) I know you provided a recipe for reproducing (thank you), > But I just can't debug with you

bug#49901: Bug in build c-ares [too many loops]

2021-08-17 Thread Brad House via Bug reports for Automake
I'm one of the maintainers of the c-ares project at https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares and have had a couple of users report this issue.  At first glance it appears to be an issue introduced between automake 1.16.1 and 1.16.3. I actually did some testing on MacOS 11.4 with automake 1.16.4 and ca

bug#49901: Bug in build c-ares [too many loops]

2021-08-06 Thread Karl Berry
I searched for "too many loops" in the bug-automake list archive. It has been previously reported several times. Seems to be related to autoconf-archive, especially the AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_14 macro (or related, presumably). In https://bugs.gnu.org/47848, I found a suggestion in the code that rer

bug#49901: Bug in build c-ares

2021-08-05 Thread Karl Berry
aclocal: error: too many loops 1) Thanks for the report. 2) Agreed there is a bug somewhere. 3) I know you provided a recipe for reproducing (thank you), But I just can't debug with your development configure.ac from scratch, especially since I'm not on Debian. Thus it would help greatly if y

bug#49901: Bug in build c-ares

2021-08-05 Thread Денис Эпиков
Hi! I have a bug. Build environment - Debian testing latest root@debian10-work:~# apt source -b c-ares Reading package lists... Done NOTICE: 'c-ares' packaging is maintained in the 'Git' version control system at: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/c-ares.git Please use: git clone https://salsa.debia