According to Geoff Hutchison:
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> > than it was in 3.1.x. It appears that now the only valid place for a
> > "#" is right at the start of a line. I would guess that you're getting
> > the error because you have a comment with leading space characters on
> > line 63 of your config file.
>
> While this seems like a good explanation (and I'm marking the bug in the
> new DB), why do most of the programs and the rest fail? That's what's been
> making me scratch my head about this...
>
> Joe, are you using the same config file for all of the programs?
I reread the first message in this thread, and two things jumped out
at me. When Joe ran rundig, there were 7 fatal errors: 5 Unknown char
errors and 2 segmentation faults, so that apparently all 7 programs run
by rundig died from one or the other error. In a later message, Joe
claimed he got htfuzzy to run without errors, so it must be that he used
a different config file on that test. The second thing that jumped out
at me was that the "#" in the error message was on the following line,
implying that the lexer choked on "\n#", which would be a major bug.
I don't know that we can confirm this until we see Joe's config file,
though.
I really don't understand lex much, so I don't know if the conf_lexer.lxx
file is just wrong, or if it didn't build right on Joe's machine, or if
it's fine but the error message is wrong. I do know this: a) the error
message is missing a \n after the %s, and b) it seems absolutely ludicrous
for the code to do an exit() at this point. What's the rationale in
treating what may or may not be a minor syntax error as fatal?
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Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil
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