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Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.3dev.14: compile error
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Philip Webb |
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Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.3dev.14: compile error |
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Fri, 5 Nov 1999 02:29:32 -0500 (EST) |
991104 Klaus Weide wrote:
> 991104 Philip Webb reported:
>> attempting to compile 2-8-3dev.14 on IRIX 5.3 with gcc i encountered:
>>
>> ./LYMain.c:186: `LINKS_AND_FORM_FIELDS_ARE_NUMBERED' undeclared here \
>> (not in a ) [possibly the line is truncated]
>> ./LYMain.c: In function `main':
>> ./LYMain.c:1333: parse error before `/'
>> Error code 1 (bu 21)
>
>> ok, so it needs a patch in userdefs.h ,
>> but having deleted FORM_ in the definition line
>> i still get the second error referring to line 1333;
>> i did not make clean, not wanting to recompile all the other pieces,
>> but i can't see how that would affect a parse error anyway.
>
> That line is
> StrAllocCopy(jumpfile, JUMPFILE);
>
> so what do you have for JUMPFILE in userdefs.h?
> Something not in "quotes"?
yes, the final */ had escaped deletion.
is that a universal problem in C or only in this compiler (gcc)?
ok ok! i know the problem is my oversight, not C's (smile),
but Joe User out there could be caught very easily:
shouldn't the compiler say: "the quotes have closed: end of definition"?
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