From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 15 20:51:19 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id B5ADD16A4D0; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:51:19 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:51:19 +0000 From: Kris Kennaway To: Lowell Gilbert Message-ID: <20050315205119.GR91771@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20050315172854.GG91771@hub.freebsd.org> <44psy04ppa.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44psy04ppa.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Max recursion level (500) exceeded. X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:51:19 -0000 On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 03:30:25PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Kris Kennaway 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... Let us know if/when you study it in more detail knowing the above probable cause :-) Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe