Max recursion level (500) exceeded.

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 03:30:25PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Kris Kennaway <kris at 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 :-)

Kris

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