Re: recursion limit of 1024 exceeded

2020-12-12 Thread Bruno Haible
Dagobert Michelsen wrote: > autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69 > automake (GNU automake) 1.16.1 Even with these (not exactly the newest) versions of autoconf and automake, the gnulib-tool create-testdir command succeeds for me. > meanwhile I tried to update autoconf to 2.70 with > 3 unexpected fail

Re: recursion limit of 1024 exceeded

2020-12-12 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Bruno, Am 12.12.2020 um 17:25 schrieb Bruno Haible : gm4:configure.ac:4574: recursion limit of 1024 exceeded, use -L to change it > > The maximum recursion limit of m4 depends how it was built. Mine has > > $ m4 --help|grep limit >-L, --nesting-limit=NUMBER change nesting li

Re: recursion limit of 1024 exceeded

2020-12-12 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Bruno, Am 11.12.2020 um 17:01 schrieb Bruno Haible : >> dam@experimental10x [global]:/home/dam/work/gnulib > PATH=/opt/csw/gnu:$PATH >> ./gnulib-tool --create-testdir --dir=./testdir --single-configure >> --without-privileged-tests > > On a glibc system, this command line works fine. It take

Re: recursion limit of 1024 exceeded

2020-12-12 Thread Paul Eggert
On 12/12/20 11:40 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote: 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. I see, would that also count as viable solu

Re: recursion limit of 1024 exceeded

2020-12-12 Thread 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 Do you think the error could be from outdated versions of these

Re: recursion limit of 1024 exceeded

2020-12-12 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Paul, Am 12.12.2020 um 20:29 schrieb 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.

Fix gnulib-tool error when some modules occur in tests/

2020-12-12 Thread Bruno Haible
Last week, the m4 continuous integration failed: $ ./bootstrap --skip-git --gnulib-srcdir="$GNULIB_SRCDIR" ... bootstrap: running: autoreconf --symlink --install missing file tests/fopen.c configure.ac:150: error: expected source file, required through AC_LIBSOURCES, not found m4/gnulib-comp.m4:6