Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 09:22:56 -0400 From: Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com> To: David Uhring <duhring@charter.net> Cc: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0 Stable Compile Failure Message-ID: <3965D9B0.816850BE@magpage.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000706135041.00bff100@64.20.73.233> <00070620523100.08450@foo>
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David Uhring wrote:
>
> Suggest you look at the file with an editor like kwrite which will color the
> text by syntax. I've several times found ???.c files that had one character
> converted to something else, either in TCP/IP transmission or tar -zxpf from
> the CD or maybe the file is corrupted in the repository. For instance, one
> time, make reported a missing endif; it was caused by a /* xxxxxxx */ showing
> up as /* xxxxxxx j/. Last night when I tried a make buildworld again, make
> reported a syntax error before '(' in line 121 of
> /usr/src/lib/libc/regex/regcomp.c. Where a space should have been was an
> extraneous '('. Changed it to a space and made buildworld just fine.
>
> Dave
Dave,
FYI--a while back i was seeing the same symptoms, random characters being
"wrong", and when I asked this list about it they called it "bit-swapping" and
suspected bad memory. Seeing as how I had recently installed some more RAM I
tried taking it back out and voila!!!, I could build again!
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