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Date:      Thu, 17 Oct 2002 01:50:59 -0400
From:      AlanE <alane@geeksrus.net>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Endless loop installing port
Message-ID:  <20021017055059.GA64167@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>
In-Reply-To: <bulk.14498.20021016175818@hub.freebsd.org>
References:  <bulk.14498.20021016175818@hub.freebsd.org>

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>From: Michael Bretterklieber <mbretter@inode.at>
>Subject: Endless loop installing port
>
>Hi,
>
>I have an endless loop If I install a port, the system produces hundreds of
>make CHILD_DEPENDS=yes PARENT_CHECKED= package-depend .....
>during registering of the package.
>
>If found that If I remove these entries from make.conf
>USE_QT_VER=    3
>USE_KDELIBS_VER=       3
>USE_KDEBASE_VER=       3
>the installation of a port works ok.

Known problem. The USE_ variables should not be set outside the
port's own Makefile. I think this is a design flaw, and at least
a convention that "private" vars are lowercase or Firstcapped
would help.

That's as may be, it's still a frog. Juli Mallett committed a patch
of mine to make(1) that forcibly stops recursion after 500 children
of children of ... even when pmake is used in a distributed fashion.

It should be MFC'd to stable any time now.
-- 
Alan Eldridge
Unix/C(++) IT Pro, 20 yrs, seeking new employment.
(http://wwweasel.geeksrus.net/~alane/resume.txt)
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