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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 14:53:59 -0400
From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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Subject: Re: mergemaster goes postal / MAKEDEV problems
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Randy Bush wrote:
 > happened on three separate systems cvsupped this afternoon
 >
 > [...]
 >
 > MAKEDEV: arith: syntax error: à [...]
 >
 > [...]

Looks to me as if this is a really old bug surfacing here. Reference

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=30637

and

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=24443

for details.


Greetings,

Michael Nottebrock


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