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

[[LoN]Kamikaze]

Mark Evenson wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> [...]
>>>
>>> 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
>>   
> 
> Unfortunately I cannot reproduce the error.
> 
> It occurred yesterday in the course of a "portupgrade -ras" for my local
> workstation, which I don't have a log of.
> 
> In any event the problem seems to have "fixed itself"  (maybe it was
> just in a couple of ports that got upgraded yesterday?).
> 
> Sorry for the false alarm.
> 

I would guess it's because of running -a with -r. Since -a walks the
ports tree in the right order neither -r nor -R are necessary. I do not
know the portupgrade source, but my guess is that -r added unnecessary
dependency checks for every single port on your system.