On Monday, April 30, 2007, at 03:35PM, "David Liontooth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>transcode CVS HEAD uses autoreconf to build configure, and I ran into
>this on macintel OSX:
>
>transcode$ autoreconf -i -f
>configure.in:1419: /usr/bin/gm4: ERROR: Recursion limit of 1024
>exceeded, use -L<N> to change it
>autom4te: /usr/bin/gm4 failed with exit status: 1
>aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
>autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
>
>Is there a workaround?

Geez! Is there anything that works right on that platform?  :-)

I checked out HEAD and ran 'autoreconf -i -f' to create the Makefile and got a 
different error.

Charles-Remes-MacBookPro:~/Documents/mac_downloads/transcode cremes$ autoreconf 
-i -f
Putting files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `autotools'.
configure.in: installing `autotools/install-sh'
configure.in: installing `autotools/mkinstalldirs'
configure.in: installing `autotools/missing'
Makefile.am:9: HAVE_PVM3 does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
aclib/Makefile.am: installing `autotools/depcomp'
encode/Makefile.am:11: HAVE_FAAC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
encode/Makefile.am:15: HAVE_LAME does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
encode/Makefile.am:19: HAVE_LZO does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
encode/Makefile.am:23: HAVE_X264 does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
encode/Makefile.am:27: HAVE_XVID does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
export/Makefile.am:11: HAVE_LIBDV does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
export/Makefile.am:16: HAVE_IMAGEMAGICK does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
export/Makefile.am:20: HAVE_LIBJPEG does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
export/Makefile.am:24: HAVE_LZO does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
export/Makefile.am:28: HAVE_LIBQUICKTIME does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
export/Makefile.am:32: HAVE_MJPEGTOOLS does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
export/Makefile.am:38: HAVE_PVM3 does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
filter/Makefile.am:18: HAVE_IMAGEMAGICK does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
filter/Makefile.am:24: HAVE_LIBPOSTPROC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
filter/Makefile.am:28: HAVE_FREETYPE2 does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
filter/Makefile.am:254: HAVE_FREETYPE2 does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
filter/Makefile.am:257: HAVE_ICONV does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
filter/preview/Makefile.am:18: HAVE_GTK does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
filter/preview/Makefile.am:22: HAVE_SDL does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
filter/preview/Makefile.am:33: HAVE_LIBDV does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
import/Makefile.am:9: HAVE_OGG does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
import/Makefile.am:10: HAVE_VORBIS does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
import/Makefile.am:15: HAVE_A52 does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
import/Makefile.am:25: HAVE_LIBDVDREAD does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
import/Makefile.am:29: HAVE_IMAGEMAGICK does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
import/Makefile.am:34: HAVE_LZO does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
import/Makefile.am:38: HAVE_LIBQUICKTIME does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
import/Makefile.am:54: HAVE_LIBXML2 does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
import/Makefile.am:63: HAVE_MJPEGTOOLS does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
import/Makefile.am: installing `autotools/compile'
multiplex/Makefile.am:11: HAVE_MJPEGTOOLS does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
Makefile.am:9: HAVE_PVM3 does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
encode/Makefile.am:11: HAVE_FAAC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
encode/Makefile.am:15: HAVE_LAME does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
encode/Makefile.am:19: HAVE_LZO does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
encode/Makefile.am:23: HAVE_X264 does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
encode/Makefile.am:27: HAVE_XVID does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
export/Makefile.am:11: HAVE_LIBDV does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
export/Makefile.am:16: HAVE_IMAGEMAGICK does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
export/Makefile.am:20: HAVE_LIBJPEG does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
export/Makefile.am:24: HAVE_LZO does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
export/Makefile.am:28: HAVE_LIBQUICKTIME does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
export/Makefile.am:32: HAVE_MJPEGTOOLS does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
export/Makefile.am:38: HAVE_PVM3 does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
filter/Makefile.am:18: HAVE_IMAGEMAGICK does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
filter/Makefile.am:24: HAVE_LIBPOSTPROC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
filter/Makefile.am:28: HAVE_FREETYPE2 does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
filter/Makefile.am:254: HAVE_FREETYPE2 does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
filter/Makefile.am:257: HAVE_ICONV does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
filter/preview/Makefile.am:18: HAVE_GTK does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
filter/preview/Makefile.am:22: HAVE_SDL does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
filter/preview/Makefile.am:33: HAVE_LIBDV does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
import/Makefile.am:9: HAVE_OGG does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
import/Makefile.am:10: HAVE_VORBIS does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
import/Makefile.am:15: HAVE_A52 does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
import/Makefile.am:25: HAVE_LIBDVDREAD does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
import/Makefile.am:29: HAVE_IMAGEMAGICK does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
import/Makefile.am:34: HAVE_LZO does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
import/Makefile.am:38: HAVE_LIBQUICKTIME does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
import/Makefile.am:54: HAVE_LIBXML2 does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
import/Makefile.am:63: HAVE_MJPEGTOOLS does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
multiplex/Makefile.am:11: HAVE_MJPEGTOOLS does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1

BTW, here are the versions of autoreconf and automake:

Charles-Remes-MacBookPro:~/Documents/mac_downloads/transcode cremes$ autoreconf 
--version
autoreconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
Charles-Remes-MacBookPro:~/Documents/mac_downloads/transcode cremes$ automake 
--version
automake (GNU automake) 1.6.3
Written by Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


What a headache....

cr

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