From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 7 6:19: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from magpage.com (trinity.magpage.com [216.155.0.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B720937BC2C for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 06:18:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfrazier@magpage.com) Received: from magpage.com (poomba.magpage.com [216.155.24.136]) by magpage.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA03391; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 13:18:49 GMT Message-ID: <3965D9B0.816850BE@magpage.com> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 09:22:56 -0400 From: Daniel Frazier Organization: Magpage Internet Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Uhring Cc: Forrest Aldrich , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0 Stable Compile Failure References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000706135041.00bff100@64.20.73.233> <00070620523100.08450@foo> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Frazier Tel: 302-239-5900 Ext. 231 System Administrator Fax: 302-239-3909 MAGPAGE, We Power the Internet WWW: http://www.magpage.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message