[Starlingx-discuss] build-pkgs cannot complete std build

[Saul Wold]

On 09/26/2018 09:16 AM, Scott Little wrote:
> 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.
> 
I am seeing this failure also, but it does not go away after a second 
rebuild.  I have the lastest stx-root (build-tools) with the recent patches.

Is this directly related to the fuzz issue or is there something else we 
need to address in CEPH itself.

This is blocking my local build.

Sau!

> 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 at 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)
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