Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 18:25:17 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: eculp@encontacto.net Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: make: Max recursion level (500) exceeded.: Resource temporarily unavailable Message-ID: <20070531222516.GB36044@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20070529165406.wh8eucju8s8w8wss@intranet.encontacto.net> References: <20070529072916.1kern4i8n4wkwgs4@intranet.encontacto.net> <20070529184635.GA48575@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20070529165406.wh8eucju8s8w8wss@intranet.encontacto.net>
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On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 04:54:06PM -0500, eculp@encontacto.net wrote: > Quoting Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>: > > >On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 07:29:16AM -0500, eculp@encontacto.net wrote: > >>On all my machines (both current and stable) that I've initiated the > >>xorg mega upgrade I'm seeing: > >>make: Max recursion level (500) exceeded.: Resource temporarily > >>unavailable > >> > >>I remember having seen this previously and googled for it and found a > >>ports thread from a couple of years ago that wasn't much help which > >>follows: > >> > >> > This is usually because you specified an illegal USE_* option in > >> the > >> > make environment, but perhaps someone committed a mistake. > >> > >> Got it - because someone pointed out a bug in another thread. > >> > >> I'm tripping over ports/37596. > >> > >> > >>Is anyone else having this problem or can point me in the right > >>direction to fix it. > > > >Typically the above advice is correct, and the fix is to correct > >whatever is broken in your make.conf. > > I don't have a problem with portmaster, which I don't really > understand although if I see it again I will definitely do some > maintenance on the make.conf. I would like to ask if there is a > current list of options somewhere. I just go adding to the file from > problems seen on the mailing list or in the Makefile and to not have > to remember to set the option at build time. I'm sure there is > probably a better way. The rule of thumb is: never set USE_*; WITH_* and WITHOUT_* are intended for user use; there are other user-settable variables documented in the comment block in bsd.port.mk. Kris
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