From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 20 8:12:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate2.abacus.co.uk (mailgate2.abacus.co.uk [194.130.48.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4729E37B413 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:12:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 46809 invoked from network); 20 Sep 2001 15:12:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dp.abacus.co.uk) (194.130.48.111) by mailgate2.abacus.co.uk with SMTP; 20 Sep 2001 15:12:24 -0000 Message-ID: <3BAA0757.BF52C720@dp.abacus.co.uk> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:12:23 +0100 From: Antony T Curtis Reply-To: antony@abacus.co."uk" Organization: Abacus Polar PLC (UK) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Nottebrock Cc: Randy Bush , FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: mergemaster goes postal / MAKEDEV problems References: <3BAA3B47.6000308@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > Randy Bush wrote: > > happened on three separate systems cvsupped this afternoon > > > > [...] > > > > MAKEDEV: arith: syntax error: à [...] > > > > [...] > > Looks to me as if this is a really old bug surfacing here. Reference > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=30637 > > and > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=24443 Is the above PR a reasonable fix and is it safe for people to apply this change to /usr/src/bin/sh/expand.c ? If it is a good fix - any chance it would be committed? -- ANTONY T CURTIS Tel: +44 (1635) 36222 Abacus Polar Holdings Ltd Fax: +44 (1635) 38670 > All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own > importance. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message