bsdmake: setrlimit: Invalid argument

[bryancn]

Attempting to install xinit on PPC G5 10.5.8 produces failure in the build of tradcpp in bsdmake. Tried port clean, but still get:

BingleyG5:~ bryan$ sudo port -v install xinit
--->  Computing dependencies for xinit..........
--->  Dependencies to be installed: tradcpp xrdb xset xorg-libXfontcache xorg-fontcacheproto xorg-libXp xorg-printproto xorg-libXxf86misc xorg-xf86miscproto
--->  Building tradcpp
bsdmake: setrlimit: Invalid argument
Command failed:  cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_tradcpp/tradcpp/work/tradcpp-0.4" && /usr/bin/bsdmake -j4 all 
Exit code: 2
Error: org.macports.build for port tradcpp returned: command execution failed
Warning: targets not executed for tradcpp: org.macports.activate org.macports.build org.macports.destroot org.macports.install
Error: Failed to install tradcpp
Please see the log file for port tradcpp for details:
    /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_tradcpp/tradcpp/main.log
Error: The following dependencies were not installed: tradcpp xrdb xset xorg-libXfontcache xorg-fontcacheproto xorg-libXp xorg-printproto xorg-libXxf86misc xorg-xf86miscproto
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Error: Processing of port xinit failed

I see a seemingly identical issue was resolved a couple of years ago in r105220. Reading some of that history, here is output of ulimit:

BingleyG5:~ bryan$ ulimit -a
core file size          (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited
max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) unlimited
max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                      (-n) 4096
pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 1
stack size              (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes              (-u) 266
virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) unlimited