Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 08:49:00 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Greg Pavelcak <gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world probs: Source file corrupted? Message-ID: <19970919084900.19196@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970918074914.6611A-100000@emily.oit.umass.edu>; from Greg Pavelcak on Thu, Sep 18, 1997 at 07:56:19AM -0400 References: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970918074914.6611A-100000@emily.oit.umass.edu>
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On Thu, Sep 18, 1997 at 07:56:19AM -0400, Greg Pavelcak wrote: > I have been trying to make world from current sources cvsup-ed > yesterday (Wed 9/17), but I haven't gotten very far. Here's a typical > message right before stopping: > > /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/ld/../../../contrib/gcc/cplus-dem.c: In function > 'do type' parse error before character 0177 Character 0177 is a DEL character. That shouldn't be in a source file. > When I check the line numbers associated with these I see thing like > "string^?append" rather than "string_append". Yup, that's how a DEL character gets represented. > I don't know anything about C. Is this right? If not, how do you > think those things get there and how can I change "^?" to "_" > globally. The "^?" appears to be a real control character, that is > it is a single character not "^" and "?". Your assumption that the source file is corrupted is correct. You may be able to fix things as you suggest--it's certainly worth a try. Probably, though, you'll need to get a new copy of the file. Greg
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