portupgrade eats my swap space

[Kris Kennaway]

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_*.

Kris
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