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Date:      Tue, 30 May 2006 17:47:38 +0200
From:      "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de>
To:        Mark Evenson <mark.evenson@gmx.at>
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:  <447C691A.1040409@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <447C655B.9040709@gmx.at>
References:  <Pine.SOC.4.64.0605291153160.17276@babbage.bham.ac.uk>	<447AE23F.9080809@gmx.at>	<20060529205032.GA91562@xor.obsecurity.org> <447C655B.9040709@gmx.at>

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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.
> 
> In any event the problem seems to have "fixed itself"  (maybe it was
> just in a couple of ports that got upgraded yesterday?).
> 
> Sorry for the false alarm.
> 

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.



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