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

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Mon May 29 13:50:54 PDT 2006


On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 01:59:59PM +0200, Mark Evenson wrote:
> Sandor Z Nemeth wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I started to get the message
> >
> >make: Max recursion level (500) exceeded.: Resource temporarily unavailable
> >
> >when registering the installation of a new port. The installation waits 
> >a long time before getting this message. How could I fix this (the 
> >information on the web concerning make.conf is not applicable for me)?
> 
> Confirmed behavior here as well, with a fresh cvsup of ports today.
> 
> I *do* have EMACS_PORTS_VERSION set in /etc/make.conf, but think there 
> is now some other cause as my previous problems were fixed via the 
> change to /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk committed last week on 
> Tuesday/Wednesday.
> 
> 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
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