Debian Bug report logs - #951054
powertop: FTBFS, problem with aclocal: error: too many loops

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Laurent Bonnaud <[email protected]>

To: Debian BTS submission <[email protected]>

Subject: powertop: FTBFS, problem with aclocal: error: too many loops

Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:29:12 +0100

Package: powertop
Version: 2.11-1
Severity: serious


Dear Maintainer,

here is the problem:

$ apt -b source powertop
Reading package lists... Done
NOTICE: 'powertop' packaging is maintained in the 'Git' version control system at:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/powertop.git
Please use:
git clone https://salsa.debian.org/debian/powertop.git
to retrieve the latest (possibly unreleased) updates to the package.
Skipping already downloaded file 'powertop_2.11-1.dsc'
Skipping already downloaded file 'powertop_2.11.orig.tar.gz'
Skipping already downloaded file 'powertop_2.11-1.debian.tar.xz'
Need to get 0 B of source archives.
Skipping unpack of already unpacked source in powertop-2.11
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package powertop
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 2.11-1
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution unstable
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Kan-Ru Chen (陳侃如) <[email protected]>
dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64
 dpkg-source --before-build .
 debian/rules clean
dh clean
   dh_clean
 debian/rules binary
dh binary
   dh_update_autotools_config
   dh_autoreconf
Copying file m4/codeset.m4
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Copying file po/Makevars.template
aclocal: installing 'm4/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx.m4' from '/usr/share/aclocal/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx.m4'
aclocal: overwriting 'm4/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx_11.m4' with '/usr/share/aclocal/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx_11.m4'
aclocal: overwriting 'm4/ax_pthread.m4' with '/usr/share/aclocal/ax_pthread.m4'
aclocal: installing 'm4/ax_require_defined.m4' from '/usr/share/aclocal/ax_require_defined.m4'
aclocal: error: too many loops
aclocal: Please contact <[email protected]>.
 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
dh_autoreconf: error: autoreconf -f -i returned exit code 1
make: *** [debian/rules:6: binary] Error 255
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2
E: Build command 'cd powertop-2.11 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-3-rt-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages powertop depends on:
ii  libc6                2.30-0experimental2
ii  libgcc-s1 [libgcc1]  10-20200204-1
ii  libgcc1              1:10-20200204-1
ii  libncursesw6         6.1+20191019-1
ii  libnl-3-200          3.4.0-1+b1
ii  libnl-genl-3-200     3.4.0-1+b1
ii  libpci3              1:3.6.4-1
ii  libstdc++6           10-20200204-1
ii  libtinfo6            6.1+20191019-1

powertop recommends no packages.

Versions of packages powertop suggests:
ii  cpufrequtils       008-1.1
pn  laptop-mode-tools  <none>

-- no debconf information

-- 
Laurent.

Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Kan-Ru Chen" <[email protected]>

To: "Laurent Bonnaud" <[email protected]>, [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#951054: powertop: FTBFS, problem with aclocal: error: too many loops

Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 16:56:46 +0900

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020, at 7:29 PM, Laurent Bonnaud wrote:
> Package: powertop
> Version: 2.11-1
> Severity: serious
> 
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> here is the problem:
> 
> $ apt -b source powertop

I can not reproduce the FTBFS issue on my local machine or pbuilder. There is also no
failure reported on buildd network.

Perhaps there is something local to your environment causing the problem?

Kanru

Message #19 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Laurent Bonnaud <[email protected]>

To: Kan-Ru Chen <[email protected]>, [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#951054: powertop: FTBFS, problem with aclocal: error: too many loops

Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 15:11:05 +0200

On 4/11/20 9:56 AM, Kan-Ru Chen wrote:

> I can not reproduce the FTBFS issue on my local machine or pbuilder. There is also no
> failure reported on buildd network.

Thanks for checking!

> Perhaps there is something local to your environment causing the problem?

Indeed.  My system has many packages from experimental, especially libc6 2.31.

-- 
Laurent.

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