Max recursion level (500) exceeded.

[J. Martin Petersen]

Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 
> 
>>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 :-)
> 
> 
> 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