Date: 15 Mar 2005 17:58:57 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Max recursion level (500) exceeded. Message-ID: <44wts8zfbi.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20050315205119.GR91771@hub.freebsd.org> References: <BAY2-F39AB90DE56749D63EB232AB1570@phx.gbl> <20050315172854.GG91771@hub.freebsd.org> <44psy04ppa.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20050315205119.GR91771@hub.freebsd.org>
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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.
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