make: Max recursion level (500) exceeded.: Resource temporarily unavailable

[eculp at encontacto.net]

Quoting Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>:

> On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 07:29:16AM -0500, eculp at encontacto.net wrote:
>> On all my machines (both current and stable) that I've initiated the
>> xorg mega upgrade I'm seeing:
>> make: Max recursion level (500) exceeded.: Resource temporarily unavailable
>>
>> I remember having seen this previously and googled for it and found a
>> ports thread from a couple of years ago that wasn't much help which
>> follows:
>>
>>      > This is usually because you specified an illegal USE_* option in the
>>      > make environment, but perhaps someone committed a mistake.
>>
>>      Got it - because someone pointed out a bug in another thread.
>>
>>      I'm tripping over ports/37596.
>>
>>
>> Is anyone else having this problem or can point me in the right
>> direction to fix it.
>
> Typically the above advice is correct, and the fix is to correct
> whatever is broken in your make.conf.

I don't have a problem with portmaster, which I don't really  
understand although if I see it again I will definitely do some  
maintenance on the make.conf.  I would like to ask if there is a  
current list of options somewhere.  I just go adding to the file from  
problems seen on the mailing list or in the Makefile and to not have  
to remember to set the option at build time. I'm sure there is  
probably a better way.

Thanks for your confirmation of the issue.

ed
>
> Kris
>