From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 31 22:25:17 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE52216A41F for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 22:25:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4E7113C44C for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 22:25:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 157C71A3C1A; Thu, 31 May 2007 15:26:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [192.168.1.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1646D51248; Thu, 31 May 2007 18:25:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 04920C125; Thu, 31 May 2007 18:25:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 18:25:17 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: eculp@encontacto.net Message-ID: <20070531222516.GB36044@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20070529072916.1kern4i8n4wkwgs4@intranet.encontacto.net> <20070529184635.GA48575@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20070529165406.wh8eucju8s8w8wss@intranet.encontacto.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070529165406.wh8eucju8s8w8wss@intranet.encontacto.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: make: Max recursion level (500) exceeded.: Resource temporarily unavailable X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 22:25:17 -0000 On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 04:54:06PM -0500, eculp@encontacto.net wrote: > Quoting Kris Kennaway : > > >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. > > I don't have a problem with portmaster, which I don't really > understand although if I see it again I will definitely do some > maintenance on the make.conf. I would like to ask if there is a > current list of options somewhere. I just go adding to the file from > problems seen on the mailing list or in the Makefile and to not have > to remember to set the option at build time. I'm sure there is > probably a better way. The rule of thumb is: never set USE_*; WITH_* and WITHOUT_* are intended for user use; there are other user-settable variables documented in the comment block in bsd.port.mk. Kris