Created attachment 1680973 [details] Reproducer Description of problem: PowerTOP recently (in v2.12) switched to autoconf-archive and it is not possible to build it now. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): autoconf-archive-2019.01.06-4.fc31.noarch How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. dnf install automake libtool gettext-devel autoconf-archive 2. autoreconf -fi 3. Actual results: aclocal: installing 'm4/pkg.m4' from '/usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4' aclocal: installing 'm4/ax_require_defined.m4' from '/usr/share/aclocal/ax_require_defined.m4' aclocal: error: too many loops aclocal: Please contact <bug-automake>. at /usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/Channels.pm line 662. Automake::Channels::msg("automake", "", "too many loops") called at /usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm line 212 Automake::ChannelDefs::prog_error("too many loops") called at /usr/bin/aclocal line 1195 autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 255 Expected results: No too many loops error Additional info: Very strange that running the autoreconf twice workarounds the problem, i.e.: autoreconf -fi || autoreconf -fi It could be also problem in the autotools or the configure.ac.
Just dropping the AX_ADD_FORTIFY_SOURCE AX_PTHREAD from the configure.ac and uninstalling the autoconf-archive, no "too many loops" error is reproduced. Then after reinstalling the autoconf-archive the error is reproduced again even without the AX_ macros.
Also reproducible in the rawhide. In the rawhide: automake-1.16.1-14.fc32.noarch gettext-devel-0.20.2-1.fc33.x86_64 libtool-2.4.6-33.fc32.x86_64 autoconf-archive-2019.01.06-5.fc32.noarch
Probably adding something along the lines of: AX_REQUIRE_DEFINED([AX_ADD_FORTIFY_SOURCE]) AX_REQUIRE_DEFINED([AX_PTHREAD]) to the configure.ac of powertop would fix this. Additionally, as the error message comes from aclocal, and explicitly mentions reporting the bug to the automake mailing list, have you done so? Running autoreconf twice fixes the problem because multiple dependent macros from autoconf-archive need to be copied by aclocal, which fails at some point during the copying process, which then succeeds the second time, as several of the required macros have already been copied by that point. This does not seem like an autoconf-archive bug per se, but due to an internal limit of aclocal when copying macros.
(In reply to David King from comment #3) Thanks for reply. > Probably adding something along the lines of: > > AX_REQUIRE_DEFINED([AX_ADD_FORTIFY_SOURCE]) > AX_REQUIRE_DEFINED([AX_PTHREAD]) > This seems to workaround the problem. > to the configure.ac of powertop would fix this. Additionally, as the error > message comes from aclocal, and explicitly mentions reporting the bug to the > automake mailing list, have you done so? > I checked various similar reports in upstream and they usually closed it as macro problem. Unfortunately, I don't know much (and don't want to know :) about autotools, so that's why I started downstream. Because of comment 1, I reported it against autoconf-archive. > Running autoreconf twice fixes the problem because multiple dependent macros > from autoconf-archive need to be copied by aclocal, which fails at some > point during the copying process, which then succeeds the second time, as > several of the required macros have already been copied by that point. This > does not seem like an autoconf-archive bug per se, but due to an internal > limit of aclocal when copying macros. > Feel free to reassign to automake if you think the problem is there - I don't know the internals.
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