portupgrade eats my swap space

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 06:54:39AM +0100, P.U.Kruppa wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:25:57AM +0100, P.U.Kruppa wrote:
> >>Hi!
> >>
> >>OK, this is an old PIII 1 GHZ , 500 MB RAM  running
> >>6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Sun Jan 15 05:56:00 CET 2006
> >>
> >>When I start a
> >>
> >>  # portupgrade -a
> >>
> >>up to 671 MB swap are used and I see this message:
> >>
> >>  make: Max recursion level (500) exceeded.: Resource temporarily
> >>  unavailable
> >>
> >>and of course everything becomes really slow. Has anybody else
> >>seen this?
> >
> >You are setting an illegal variable in your make.conf or environment
> >that is causing the port makefile to recurse.  Probably USE_GCC or
> >some other USE_*.
> That could be a hint. I can find legal options in
>   /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk
> can I ?

Sort of..but it also lists options that are only legal within specific
port makefiles (like USE_*).

Post your make.conf and I'll probably be able to tell you what's wrong.

Kris
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