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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: make: Max recursion level (500) exceeded.: Resource temporarily
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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.

Kris