Max recursion level (500) exceeded.

[Lowell Gilbert]

Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:58:57PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> 
> > > > 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.  
> 
> It doesn't for me, so you'll still need to debug this some more on
> your own or at least post some details.

So far, I've tracked it down to calculating the all-depends-list in
lang/gcc32.  And if I deinstall gcc32, the problem goes away.