aclocal 'too many loops' has been popping up sporadically for a week or two now.  Possibly 7.5 related.

I suspect that there is a build order and/or race condition element to this.   It often goes away if you just run build-pkgs a second time.

The second possible element is that build-pkgs is using flags that preserve the mock environment between packages.  The goal was to avoid reinstalling required packages that are often common across the packages we build.   It was a build time speedup that has been in use for 2-3 years now without incident.

Google shows that other folks have hit 'aclocal too many loops' as well, and there are suggestions that it might be fixed in a recent update to automake.  Scanning the changelog for the latest and greatest from gnu.org doesn't show any obvious fixes addressing this issue.

Scott


On 18-09-26 11:32 AM, Cordoba Malibran, Erich wrote:
BUILDSTDERR: aclocal: error: too many loops
BUILDSTDERR: aclocal: Please contact <bug-automake@gnu.org>.
BUILDSTDERR:  at /usr/share/automake-1.13/Automake/Channels.pm line 662.
BUILDSTDERR: 	Automake::Channels::msg('automake', '', 'too many loops') called at /usr/share/automake-1.13/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm line 212
BUILDSTDERR: 	Automake::ChannelDefs::prog_error('too many loops') called at /usr/bin/aclocal line 1187
BUILDSTDERR: error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.Sj0E7c (%build)
BUILDSTDERR:     Macro expanded in comment on line 214: %global _libexecdir %{_exec_prefix}/lib
BUILDSTDERR:     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.Sj0E7c (%build)