From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 3 03:23:18 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F978106566B for ; Sat, 3 Jan 2009 03:23:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@alaskaparadise.com) Received: from bsdevel.alaskaparadise.com (bsdevel.alaskaparadise.com [208.86.224.193]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED5868FC08 for ; Sat, 3 Jan 2009 03:23:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@alaskaparadise.com) Received: from stargate.alaskaparadise.com (157-188-42-72.gci.net [72.42.188.157]) by bsdevel.alaskaparadise.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C77BE28E107D; Sat, 3 Jan 2009 03:23:16 +0000 (UTC) From: Beech Rintoul Organization: FreeBSD To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 18:23:15 -0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.3 (FreeBSD/8.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.1.3; i386; ; ) References: <200901021519.16178.beech@alaskaparadise.com> <4EE5A2FB-4621-4737-A40B-B2DA83497ACF@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4EE5A2FB-4621-4737-A40B-B2DA83497ACF@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901021823.15830.beech@alaskaparadise.com> Cc: Garrett Cooper Subject: Re: Strange error X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: beech@alaskaparadise.com List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:23:18 -0000 On Friday 02 January 2009 17:55:43 Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Jan 2, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Beech Rintoul wrote: > > I'm updating www/htmleditor an I'm getting the following error: > > > > /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.8 "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/ > > lib" ._Makefile.PL ._Makefile > > Unrecognized character \x05 at ._Makefile.PL line 1. > > *** Error code 255 > > > > I can't find any strange characters in the distfiles. Does someone > > know what > > this means? > > > > Beech > > Probably a corrupt distfile that should be deleted and refetched. I > have no idea what the ENQ character does, and neither does Perl no > doubt... > -Garrett It turned out to be a Mac encoded file that isn't needed. Thanks for the responses :-) Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://people.freebsd.org/~beech X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Skype: akbeech / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------