Hello. I received the following report from the Debian bug system:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andreas Henriksson <andr...@fatal.se> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 11:21:12 +0200 Subject: Bug#764580: m4 eats memory for breakfast Package: m4 Version: 1.4.17-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, While trying to investigate a reported issue in util-linux I was going to attempt a git bisect but I wasn't even able to build the old version. git clone git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/pkg-util-linux.git util-linux cd util-linux git checkout v2.20.1 ./autogen.sh autopoint: /usr/bin/autopoint (GNU gettext-tools) 0.19.2 aclocal: aclocal (GNU automake) 1.14.1 autoconf: autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69 autoheader: autoheader (GNU Autoconf) 2.69 automake: automake (GNU automake) 1.14.1 libtoolize: libtoolize (GNU libtool) 2.4.2 ^C Before aborting, m4 was observed to have allocated 38g ram (and counting).... [...]
