Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] build problems

[Chris T. <ch...@m-...>]

On Dec 2, 2003, at 5:12 AM, Jim Menard wrote:

> Dan,
>
>> At this point I was incredibly frustrated and completely baffled. I 
>> went over every single word of code and every aspect of my nib files. 
>> They were all solid. As a last resort I finally decided to try 
>> something i figured wouldn't work. I went into one of the example 
>> NSObject subclass files and copied the "< OSX::NSObject" part (even 
>> though it was the exact same in my document). I deleted that part 
>> from my file and pasted the section from the other. To my amazement, 
>> the error disappeared.
>>
>> In it's place, were several more extremely odd errors. For instance 
>> it claimed that my "end" tags were void expressions. I checked and I 
>> had the right number of tags. I got so fed up with trying to get rid 
>> of the errors, that I decided to start over completely from scratch.
>
> Could this be a character encoding issue? If the file isn't straight 
> ASCII mightn't that confuse the Ruby parser?

Yes, or it could be line endings as well. The Ruby interpreter does not 
like CR or CR/LF. Bit me at least once.

PB/Xcode defaults to MacRoman and LF or UTF-8 and LF, so it's not 
likely, but you never know.

Chris

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