From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 15 23:04:07 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F49516A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:04:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from brugere.aub.dk (mail.aub.dk [195.24.1.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 068F043D48 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:04:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmp.lists@alvorlig.dk) Received: by brugere.aub.dk (Postfix, from userid 1693) id 29657C33B; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:04:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.1.4.50] (jmp.aub.dk [10.1.4.50]) by brugere.aub.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A2F2C2AD for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:04:01 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <423769E1.2040506@alvorlig.dk> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:04:01 +0100 From: "J. Martin Petersen" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050313) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <20050315172854.GG91771@hub.freebsd.org> <44psy04ppa.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20050315205119.GR91771@hub.freebsd.org> <44wts8zfbi.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44wts8zfbi.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Max recursion level (500) exceeded. X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:04:07 -0000 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Kris Kennaway writes: > > >>On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 03:30:25PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> >>>Kris Kennaway 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