Applying a fix for #998 -- I used a patch equivalent to

bartv's, although I could not use his commit because it was
against the 'master' branch instead of 0.24.x.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/puppet/parser/compile.rb b/lib/puppet/parser/compile.rb
index f76103a28..e1e230d48 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/parser/compile.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/parser/compile.rb
@@ -309,6 +309,9 @@ class Puppet::Parser::Compile
             done = false if evaluate_collections
             done = false if evaluate_definitions
             break if done
+
+            count += 1
+
             if count > 1000
                 raise Puppet::ParseError, "Somehow looped more than 1000 times while evaluating host catalog"
             end