From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 7 16:18:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2F0237B781 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:18:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA18172; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:17:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA42847; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:17:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:17:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200007072317.QAA42847@vashon.polstra.com> To: duhring@charter.net Reply-To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0 Stable Compile Failure In-Reply-To: <00070620523100.08450@foo> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000706135041.00bff100@64.20.73.233> <00070620523100.08450@foo> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: stable@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <00070620523100.08450@foo>, 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. 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message