Date: 15 Mar 2005 15:30:25 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Max recursion level (500) exceeded. Message-ID: <44psy04ppa.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20050315172854.GG91771@hub.freebsd.org> References: <BAY2-F39AB90DE56749D63EB232AB1570@phx.gbl> <20050315172854.GG91771@hub.freebsd.org>
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Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> writes: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:51:36PM +0430, Lee Harr wrote: > > I am getting this error when cleaning in ports directories > > (it seems perhaps only on ports involving python): > > > > make: Max recursion level (500) exceeded.: Resource temporarily unavailable > > > > > > It takes a very long time, but then portmanager or portupgrade > > will continue on and the install or upgrade seems to work fine. > > > > Is this a known issue? > > Usually caused by setting an illegal option (usually USE_*) in the > environment, make.conf or command-line. I get it on "make clean" for editors/openoffice-1.1, but I haven't managed to track the problem down. With an empty environment and an empty make.conf. But that takes so long to build anyway that I don't really care very much...
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