'Max recursion level (500) exceeded' error

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed May 3 01:56:56 UTC 2006


On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:54:38AM +0900, MANTANI Nobutaka wrote:
> At Mon, 1 May 2006 13:53:38 -0400,
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 06:31:41PM +0800, plasma wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 04:50:29PM +0900, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:
> > > > >>>>> On Mon, 1 May 2006 17:14:06 +0930
> > > > >>>>> "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> said:
> > > > 
> > > > doconnor> On Monday 01 May 2006 17:02, plasma wrote:
> > > > > I recently upgraded my emacs from editors/emacs to editors/emacs-devel,
> > > > > and put the following line in /etc/make.conf:
> > > > >
> > > > >   EMACS_PORT_NAME=  emacs22
> > > > >
> > > > > After that, the 'Max recursion level (500) exceeded.' error happened
> > > > > on every port I installed or upgraded.  If I commented that line out,
> > > > > then everything's fine.
> > > > >
> > > > > Shouldn't I put that line in make.conf?  Or there's a bug in port's
> > > > > makefile?
> > > > 
> > > > doconnor> The former - that parameter is only for a port to set I think.
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, there is a PR to address this problem:
> > > > 
> > > > 	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/95238
> > > 
> > > Thanks for quick response.  Then I think setting the variable for
> > > emacs-related ports in my pkgtools.conf is the only way to go. :)
> > 
> > Or apply the patch.
> 
> Kris, may I commit the patch and close my PR (ports/95238) ?
> It has been in the portmgr team's PR queue for a month. :-)

No, it needs to be fully tested first.  It's scheduled for the next
test build.

Kris
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