issue with autoreconf

[BouncyCCPP]

Hi, We have download certlint and tried to build this module on RH Linux, Ruby 2.2.1. We follow the instruction in build-x509helper/README. At the autoreconf step, we ran into the following problem:

bash-3.2$ autoreconf -iv autoreconf: Entering directory .' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4 aclocal:configure.ac:13: warning: macroAM_PROG_AR' not found in library configure.ac:101: /usr/bin/m4: ERROR: recursion limit of 1024 exceeded, use -L to change it autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1 autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1

If you have any suggestion to fix this problem, we will be grateful. Thanks

[pzb]

What version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux are you using?

[BouncyCCPP]

Hi Peter,

I’m building it on Linux 2.6.18-308.11.1.el5.

Thanks

From: Peter Bowen [mailto:notifications@github.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 2:08 PM To: awslabs/certlint Cc: Hoa Ly Subject: Re: [certlint] issue with autoreconf (#1)

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[guysagy]

The same thing happens on CentOS release 6.2 with Ruby version 2.2.4, gem version 2.4.8:

$ autoreconf -iv autoreconf: Entering directory .' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4 configure.ac:13: warning: macroAM_PROG_AR' not found in library /usr/bin/m4:configure.ac:101: recursion limit of 1024 exceeded, use -L to change it autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1 autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1

[guysagy]

After updating my operating system , the warning about the macro went away, but I am still getting the followup error due to the exceeded recursion limit:

$ autoreconf -iv autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4 /usr/bin/m4:configure.ac:99: recursion limit of 1024 exceeded, use -L to change it autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1 autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1

[guysagy]

Judging by posts in other threads, the issue was with our old gcc version / installation. Switching to using Linux Mint 17.1 with gcc version 4.8.4 solved the issues listed above.

[pzb]

I just updated the asn1c.patch and the asn1c project changed their configure.ac.

Can you remove the whole asn1c git checkout and try again?

[pzb]

It seems this issue is fixed. If anyone else is experiencing the issue, please reopen.