From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 12 14:53:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1AB516A4CE for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 14:53:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pd4mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9450843D4C for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 14:53:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joe@dubium.com) Received: from pd3mr8so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr8so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.24])2003))freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 08:53:17 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml2so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.146]) by pd3mr8so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0HZ700B84AOTVIA0@pd3mr8so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 08:53:17 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mail.dubium.com (S0106000629897a08.vn.shawcable.net [24.82.130.8]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HZ700M2CAOTKT@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 08:53:17 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 14794 invoked by uid 11186); Sat, 12 Jun 2004 14:52:57 +0000 Received: from joe@dubium.com by sigfried.dubium.com by uid 7791 with qmail-scanner-1.21 (spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.221281 secs) ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 14:52:57 +0000 Received: from localhost (HELO mail.dubium.com) ([127.0.0.1]) (envelope-sender ) by 0 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 14:52:55 +0000 Received: from 192.168.0.1 (SquirrelMail authenticated user joe@dubium.com) ; by mail.dubium.com with HTTP; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 07:52:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 07:52:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Joe To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <1971.192.168.0.1.1087051975.squirrel@192.168.0.1> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.1 [CVS] Subject: known error building expat2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 14:53:54 -0000 Could someone take pity on me - I am not a C programmer. The following error appears in building expat2, it has been reported as a bug in the port and it doesn't look like it will get attention soon. Unfortunately I need to get through this port. I've done some investigation. Short of a crash course in C programming, I am quite lost trying to figure out the error. In /usr/ports/textproc/expat2 xmlwf/xmlwf.c:24: syntax error before `characterData' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/textproc/expat2/work/expat-1.95.7. *** Error code 1 This has been reported as an error: ports/64259: expat-1.95.7 compile fails with non-obvious syntax error (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-bugs/2004-March/027615.html) and has been assigned a severity - low, rightly so -- Joe S. ------------ praxis makes perfect. - anon