Max recursion level (500) exceeded.

[Lowell Gilbert]

Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local at be-well.ilk.org> writes:

> 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.

The problem comes from the USE_GCC variable in the gcc32 Makefile.
Is USE_GCC broken for "ORLATER" if a later gcc is already installed?