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Date:      15 Mar 2005 15:30:25 -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:  <44psy04ppa.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050315172854.GG91771@hub.freebsd.org>
References:  <BAY2-F39AB90DE56749D63EB232AB1570@phx.gbl> <20050315172854.GG91771@hub.freebsd.org>

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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...



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