Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:04:01 +0100 From: "J. Martin Petersen" <jmp.lists@alvorlig.dk> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Max recursion level (500) exceeded. Message-ID: <423769E1.2040506@alvorlig.dk> In-Reply-To: <44wts8zfbi.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <BAY2-F39AB90DE56749D63EB232AB1570@phx.gbl> <20050315172854.GG91771@hub.freebsd.org> <44psy04ppa.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20050315205119.GR91771@hub.freebsd.org> <44wts8zfbi.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Lowell Gilbert wrote: > 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. I'm seeing this as well when doing a make clean in editors/openoffice-1.1. Cheers, Martin
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