[oe] error trying to build parted 1.8.8 : configure.ac:173: error: AC_REQUIRE: circular dependency of AC_GNU_SOURCE

[Jay Snyder]

I'm trying to build parted 1.8.8 on OE:


NOTE: Running task 551 of 565 (ID: 3, 
/home/oe/2009-12-04/openembedded/recipes/parted/parted_1.8.8.bb, do_unpack)
NOTE: Running task 552 of 565 (ID: 13, 
/home/oe/2009-12-04/openembedded/recipes/parted/parted_1.8.8.bb, 
do_distribute_sources)
NOTE: Unpacking ../downloads/parted-1.8.8.tar.gz to 
tmp/work/i686-angstrom-linux/parted-1.8.8-r2/                            
NOTE: Running task 553 of 565 (ID: 4, 
/home/oe/2009-12-04/openembedded/recipes/parted/parted_1.8.8.bb, 
do_patch)             
NOTE: Applying patch 'use_llseek_syscall.patch' 
(../2009-12-04/openembedded/recipes/parted/files/use_llseek_syscall.patch)    

NOTE: Applying patch 'parted-1.8.x.patch' 
(../2009-12-04/openembedded/recipes/parted/files/parted-1.8.x.patch)                

NOTE: Running task 554 of 565 (ID: 5, 
/home/oe/2009-12-04/openembedded/recipes/parted/parted_1.8.8.bb, 
do_configure)         
ERROR: function do_configure 
failed                                                                                           

ERROR: log data follows 
(/home/oe/build/tmp/work/i686-angstrom-linux/parted-1.8.8-r2/temp/log.do_configure.24731)             

| automake (GNU automake) 
1.10.2                                                                                              

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| Written by Tom Tromey 
<tromey at redhat.com>                                                                                   

|        and Alexandre Duret-Lutz 
<adl at gnu.org>.                                                                              

| AUTOV is 
1.10                                                                                                               

| NOTE: Executing autoreconf --verbose --install --force 
--exclude=autopoint -I 
/home/oe/build/tmp/work/i686-angstrom-linux/parted-1.8.8-r2/parted-1.8.8/m4/ 
-I/home/oe/build/tmp/staging/i686-angstrom-linux/usr/share/aclocal-1.10 
-I /home/oe/build/tmp/staging/i686-angstrom-linux/usr/share/aclocal
| autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
| autoreconf: running: aclocal -I 
/home/oe/build/tmp/work/i686-angstrom-linux/parted-1.8.8-r2/parted-1.8.8/m4/ 
-I /home/oe/build/tmp/staging/i686-angstrom-linux/usr/share/aclocal-1.10 
-I /home/oe/build/tmp/staging/i686-angstrom-linux/usr/share/aclocal 
--force -I m4
| configure.ac:173: error: AC_REQUIRE: circular dependency of AC_GNU_SOURCE
| 
/home/oe/build/tmp/work/i686-angstrom-linux/parted-1.8.8-r2/parted-1.8.8/m4/extensions.m4:19: 
AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS is expanded from...
| ../../lib/autoconf/specific.m4:332: AC_GNU_SOURCE is expanded from...
| 
/home/oe/build/tmp/work/i686-angstrom-linux/parted-1.8.8-r2/parted-1.8.8/m4/gnulib-comp.m4:23: 
gl_EARLY is expanded from...
| configure.ac:173: the top level
| autom4te: /home/oe/build/tmp/staging/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/m4 failed 
with exit status: 1
| aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
| autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
| FATAL: autoreconf execution failed.
NOTE: Task failed: 
/home/oe/build/tmp/work/i686-angstrom-linux/parted-1.8.8-r2/temp/log.do_configure.24731
ERROR: TaskFailed event exception, aborting
ERROR: Build of 
/home/oe/2009-12-04/openembedded/recipes/parted/parted_1.8.8.bb 
do_configure failed
ERROR: Task 5 
(/home/oe/2009-12-04/openembedded/recipes/parted/parted_1.8.8.bb, 
do_configure) failed
NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 553 tasks of which 548 didn't need to be 
rerun and 1 failed.
ERROR: '/home/oe/2009-12-04/openembedded/recipes/parted/parted_1.8.8.bb' 
failed