>From: Michael Bretterklieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Endless loop installing port > >Hi, > >I have an endless loop If I install a port, the system produces hundreds of >make CHILD_DEPENDS=yes PARENT_CHECKED= package-depend ..... >during registering of the package. > >If found that If I remove these entries from make.conf >USE_QT_VER= 3 >USE_KDELIBS_VER= 3 >USE_KDEBASE_VER= 3 >the installation of a port works ok.
Known problem. The USE_ variables should not be set outside the port's own Makefile. I think this is a design flaw, and at least a convention that "private" vars are lowercase or Firstcapped would help. That's as may be, it's still a frog. Juli Mallett committed a patch of mine to make(1) that forcibly stops recursion after 500 children of children of ... even when pmake is used in a distributed fashion. It should be MFC'd to stable any time now. -- Alan Eldridge Unix/C(++) IT Pro, 20 yrs, seeking new employment. (http://wwweasel.geeksrus.net/~alane/resume.txt) KDE, KDE-FreeBSD Teams (http://www.kde.org, http://freebsd.kde.org/) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
