Hi Bruno, Am 11.12.2020 um 17:01 schrieb Bruno Haible <[email protected]>: >> 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 takes 1 or 2 hours, > though.
Yes, similar on Solaris. >> executing aclocal -I glm4 >> gm4:configure.ac:4574: recursion limit of 1024 exceeded, use -L<N> to change >> it > > You gave `m4 --version`. But what is `autoconf --version` and > `automake --version`? Sure: dam@experimental10x [global]:/home/dam/work/gnulib > m4 --version m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.18 Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by Rene' Seindal. dam@experimental10x [global]:/home/dam/work/gnulib > autoconf --version autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69 Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille. dam@experimental10x [global]:/home/dam/work/gnulib > automake --version automake (GNU automake) 1.16.1 Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. 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 Do you think the error could be from outdated versions of these two? Best regards — Dago -- "You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896
