i have never had any spurious errors on this box since it has been running. until now, anyway....but it has only been running a couple of weeks. this may be the shot across the bow....
the file in question appears as an e-mail message. line 4 of the header reads: Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA several attempts to compile using both methods yields the same result at the same spot.....what a mess. stephen d. kingrea On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 12:09:34PM -0500, Stephen D. Kingrea wrote: >> make depend returns (last 5 lines): >> >> In file included from ../../isa/fdreg.h:42, >> ../../fd.c/:85: >> ../../isa/ic/nec765.h:4: unterminated character constant >> mkdep: compile failed >> *** error code 1 >> >> have i done something wrong? > >Looks like you might have corrupted source (possibly due to bad >hardware such as bad RAM or CPU cooling), but it's difficult to be >certain without more information. > >* What is on line 4 of that header? >* Does it always fail in the same place? >* Have you had other spurious errors on this machine under load? > >etc. > >Kris > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message