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Date:      Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:17:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        duhring@charter.net
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.0 Stable Compile Failure
Message-ID:  <200007072317.QAA42847@vashon.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <00070620523100.08450@foo>
References:  <4.3.2.7.2.20000706135041.00bff100@64.20.73.233> <00070620523100.08450@foo>

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In article <00070620523100.08450@foo>, David Uhring
<duhring@charter.net> 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.

You've got hardware problems.  "*" and "j" are identical except for
1 bit.  That's a classic sign of bad RAM or cache.

John
-- 
  John Polstra                                               jdp@polstra.com
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
  "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence."  -- Chögyam Trungpa



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