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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org>
Date: 15 Mar 2005 17:58:57 -0500
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Subject: Re: Max recursion level (500) exceeded.
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Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 03:30:25PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> 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 :-)

I knew the "usual cause."  That's why I tried it with an empty
make.conf and a minimal environment, under various shells.  And a
simple "make conf" still goes into spasms of recursion.