Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 14:03:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: dwhite@gumbysoft.com Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: syntax errors in standard headers!? Message-ID: <200407262103.i6QL30Uj058231@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <20040726130939.J32820@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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On 26 Jul, Doug White wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Evan Dower wrote:
>
>> WIth the instability issues of late, I recently had a crash in the middle of
>> portupgrading. This left many packages with no +CONTENTS file. Thus I
>> figured I would simply reinstall them. Unfortunately when I try to reinstall
>> any of them I tend to get errors such as:
>> /usr/include/stdlib.h:46: error: syntax error before "typedef"
>> and
>> /usr/include/locale.h:42: error: syntax error before "struct"
>>
>> I get all kinds of other errors too. Basically not a whole lot is working
>> properly, even though I have updated -CURRENT since the crash. Most recently
>> on Thursday.
>
> Some port's .h file probably got corrupted and its leaving things in an
> insconsistent state when the system headers come along. Inspect a file
> that doesn't compile and trace the included files to find the corrupted
> one.
gcc's -E option comes in very handy for debugging problems like this.
Direct the package build output to a file.
Go to the directory that the compiler was running in when it
croaked.
Execute the compiler command that croaked, with the addition of
the -E option, and the removal of the -o outputfile option.
You'll probably want to redirect the output to a file.
The -C and -dD options may also be helpful.
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