make distclean problem

[Derek Atkins]

David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net> writes:

> I updated from r14497 to r14731 yesterday. While I was trying to run  
> make distclean, my mac complained:
>
> cd . && /bin/sh /Users/dbr/dev/gnucash/missing --run aclocal-1.9 -I  
> macros -I m4
> configure.in:2368: /sw/bin/gm4: ERROR: recursion limit of 1024  
> exceeded, use -L<N> to change it
> autom4te: /sw/bin/gm4 failed with exit status: 1
> aclocal-1.9: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
> make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 1
>
> Is that -L<N> intended for the aclocal command? Should I be editing  
> my copy of configure.in? Has my rash upgrade from autoconf 2.59 to  
> 2.60 caused this? Suggestions?

First, try running ./autogen.sh and see what happens.  Maybe you got
an unclean update from svn or you had a bad merge?

-derek
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