Re: [gtk-list] autoconf/m4 troubles

[Straker Skunk <straker fox mit edu>]

> I've created the configure.in and the Makefile.am files in all 
> relevent directories, I've run aclocal.  After I run aclocal, 
> I run autoconf and get an error saying something like this:
> (don't have the exact error message right now)
> 
> m4: maximum recursion limit of 250 exceeded, use -L<N> to override

I've run into that same exact problem before, writing autoconf macros. I
was trying out creative ways of quoting/escaping strings in m4, and it was
a line much like one of the following that gave the error:

echo `$1'
echo ``$1''

The `' characters (note, symmetric!) are m4's native quote delimiters, and
using them in autoconf space (where the normal quote characters are []) 
somehow made m4 very unhappy.

I'd guess you have an unbalanced/asymmetric apostrophe pair hiding
somewhere, especially if you're doing weird things with command
substitution. If it's not that, then I'm as stumped as you are :]


Hope this helps,


--Straker


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