Bug 16435 – Compilation of xfree aborts due to parse and syntax errors of xf86str.h

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

[Description Viktor Jesina 2003-02-26 20:15:50 UTC]

I tried to install XFree86 with emerge xfree. After 2 hours of compiling, the
compilation aborts. In line 619,620,621 of xf86str.h are parser errors befor `.`
and in Line 659 is a parse error (I found a single letter `c`, which belongs to
nowhere, in line 657). So the file /programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86str.h
seems to be corrupted.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge xfree
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
compilation abort

Expected Results:  
successful compilation

[Comment 1 Mark Guertin 2003-02-27 11:27:04 UTC]

can you attach that file here please?  Also the output of emerge info would be 
good too :) 

[Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-02-27 14:11:33 UTC]

Some corruption somewhere ?  Check that you do not have HTREE (also called
dir_index) enabled on ext3 ... I run into some bad luck with it.

[Comment 3 Mark Guertin 2003-03-07 14:00:43 UTC]

okay, been two weeks on this one

A few more days and I'll close it assuming this is not re-creatable unless we hear different, thanks.

[Comment 4 Viktor Jesina 2003-03-09 09:29:25 UTC]

Created attachment 9162 [details]
compile-output from compilation of xfree

Hello, 

here is the file and the compile-output. There are errors (parse errors, 
syntax error and strays of `\`) in the following files : 

xf86str.h
lnxResource.c
xf86Bus.c
xf86pciBus.c

Sorry, it took that long to post it. 
I deleted the sources and tried it again, but every time the same result.

[Comment 5 Viktor Jesina 2003-03-09 09:30:20 UTC]

Created attachment 9163 [details]
source with errors

[Comment 6 Viktor Jesina 2003-03-09 09:33:34 UTC]

Created attachment 9164 [details]
source with error

[Comment 7 Viktor Jesina 2003-03-09 09:34:06 UTC]

Created attachment 9165 [details]
source with errors

[Comment 8 Viktor Jesina 2003-03-09 09:34:37 UTC]

Created attachment 9166 [details]
source with errors

[Comment 9 Graham Forest 2003-04-22 15:53:47 UTC]

This has been sadly neglected. There was somewhat of a reason, as Gerk left, but there isn't really an excuse. Fortunately, there is a whole new version of xfree out. Does this issue still apply?

[Comment 10 Graham Forest 2003-04-27 21:53:17 UTC]

I don't like closing bugs because they've gone out of date, but we can reopen it if it is still a problem. xfree-4.3.0-r2 is very nice, and -r3 with improved ppc compile times is due out soon.

[Comment 11 Luca Barbato 2004-11-28 23:26:00 UTC]

Closing