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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
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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.

Kris

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