Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:51:19 +0000 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Max recursion level (500) exceeded. Message-ID: <20050315205119.GR91771@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <44psy04ppa.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <BAY2-F39AB90DE56749D63EB232AB1570@phx.gbl> <20050315172854.GG91771@hub.freebsd.org> <44psy04ppa.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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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 :-)
Kris
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