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From: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org>
To: Robert Burmeister <Robert.Burmeister@UToledo.edu>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: lang/ruby19
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On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:55:23 -0400
Robert Burmeister <Robert.Burmeister@UToledo.edu> mentioned:

> FreeBSD 9.2PR2 i386
> 
> More ports are provoking the error
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/pkgtools.rb:828: stack level too deep 
> (SystemStackError)
> when being updated with portupgrade,
> apparently due to the large number of ports that depend on them.
> 
> It takes over half a day to remove and reinstall /math/sage to update /x11/libx11.
> 
> Please look into this limitation.

That's weird.  Can you, please, run the following to see how deep the stack
goes?  Thanks!

ruby -e "def iter(acc) puts acc; iter(acc + 1) end; iter(0)"

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