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Date:      Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:28:54 +0000
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Lee Harr <missive@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Max recursion level (500) exceeded.
Message-ID:  <20050315172854.GG91771@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <BAY2-F39AB90DE56749D63EB232AB1570@phx.gbl>
References:  <BAY2-F39AB90DE56749D63EB232AB1570@phx.gbl>

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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.

Kris

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