Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 19:42:37 +0200 From: Mark Evenson <mark.evenson@gmx.at> To: "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> Cc: anrays@gmail.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: make: Max recursion level (500) exceeded.: Resource temporarily unavailable Message-ID: <447C840D.4000700@gmx.at> In-Reply-To: <447C691A.1040409@gmx.de> References: <Pine.SOC.4.64.0605291153160.17276@babbage.bham.ac.uk> <447AE23F.9080809@gmx.at> <20060529205032.GA91562@xor.obsecurity.org> <447C655B.9040709@gmx.at> <447C691A.1040409@gmx.de>
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[LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > Mark Evenson wrote: > >> Kris Kennaway wrote: >> >>> [...] >>> >>>> Let me know how I can give more information to help debug this. >>>> >>>> >>> Well, what else do you have set, or what were you trying to make? >>> >>> Kris >>> >>> >> Unfortunately I cannot reproduce the error. >> >> It occurred yesterday in the course of a "portupgrade -ras" for my local >> workstation, which I don't have a log of. >> > I would guess it's because of running -a with -r. Since -a walks the > ports tree in the right order neither -r nor -R are necessary. I do not > know the portupgrade source, but my guess is that -r added unnecessary > dependency checks for every single port on your system. > > "portupgrade" hasn't misbehaved in the past, but thanks for the hint about the unnecessary "-r" option. I picked it up when I first started using "portupgrade" (~2000?), and haven't really changed my behavior since.
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