1.18.0 doesn't build defconfig on Ubuntu 9.04.

[walter harms]

thx for posting,
you know these days a lot of ppl use google to find a solution for there problems.

re,
 wh


Am 08.12.2010 21:01, schrieb Rob Landley:
> On Wednesday 08 December 2010 10:38:42 walter harms wrote:
>> Rob,
>> can you please report the original error ? I did not see it in the ML and
>> it seems interessting.
> 
> Sorry, the attachements were too big for the mailing list.  (Even compressed.)
> 
> Basically, I did a make defconfig and did a make, and it went:
> 
>   SPLIT   include/autoconf.h -> include/config/*
>   HOSTCC  applets/usage
> In file included from applets/usage.c:24:
> include/usage.h:23:28: warning: missing terminating " character
> In file included from applets/usage.c:24:
> include/usage.h:25: error: expected identifier or '(' before string constant
> include/usage.h:33:10: warning: missing terminating " character
> include/usage.h:33: error: missing terminating " character
> include/usage.h:38:26: warning: missing terminating " character
> include/usage.h:41:29: warning: missing terminating " character
> include/usage.h:40: error: missing terminating " character
> include/usage.h:50:24: warning: missing terminating " character
> include/usage.h:99:7: warning: missing terminating ' character
> include/usage.h:99: error: missing terminating ' character
> 
> And so on for pages, because usage.h (and later applets.h) looked like:
> 
> /* DO NOT EDIT. This file is generated from usage.src.h */
> /* vi: set sw=8 ts=8: */
> /*
>  * This file suffers from chronically incorrect tabification
>  * of messages. Before editing this file:
>  * 1. Switch you editor to 8-space tab mode.
>  * 2. Do not use \t in messages, use real tab character.
>  * 3. Start each source line with message as follows:
>  *    |<7 spaces>"text with tabs"....
>  * or
>  *    |<5 spaces>"\ntext with tabs"....
>  */
> #ifndef BB_USAGE_H
> #define BB_USAGE_H 1
> 
> 
> #define NOUSAGE_STR "\b"
> 
> 
> #define bunzip2_trivial_usage \
>        "[-cf] [FILE]..." \
> 
> #define bunzip2_full_usage "
> 
> " \
>        "Decompress FILEs (or stdin)
> " \
>      "
> Options:" \
>      "
> 	-c	Write to stdout" \
>      "
> 	-f	Force" \
> 
> #define bzcat_trivial_usage \
>        "FILE" \
> 
> #define bzcat_full_usage "
> 
> " \
>        "Decompress to stdout" \
> 
> #define tar_trivial_usage \
>        "-[" IF_FEATURE_TAR_CREATE("c") "xt" IF_FEATURE_SEAMLESS_GZ("z") \
> 	IF_FEATURE_SEAMLESS_BZ2("j") IF_FEATURE_SEAMLESS_LZMA("a") \
> 	IF_FEATURE_SEAMLESS_Z("Z") IF_FEATURE_TAR_NOPRESERVE_TIME("m") "vO] " \
> 	IF_FEATURE_TAR_FROM("[-X FILE] ") \
>        "[-f TARFILE] [-C DIR] [FILE]..." \
> 
> 
>> re,
>>  wh
> 
> Rob