Re: [Visualpython-users] compile / rebuild-problems under Linux.

[Roger F. <fe...@bi...>]

On 23 Oct 2001, Terje Kvernes wrote:

>   first of all, this installation is being done under Suse 7.1, with
>   all dependencies met. I've googled, search the archives and read the
>   faq, but the installation still breaks. 'rpm -v --rebuild
>   visual-2001.10.15-3.src.rpm' ends up with the following error:
> 
> g++ -g -I. -I./CXX/Include -I/usr/include/python2.1 -I/usr/include/python2.1/Numeric `gtk-config --cflags gtk gthread` -w   -c -o cvisual.o cvisual.cpp
> cvisual.cpp:26: parse error before `return'
> cvisual.cpp:26: stray '\' in program
> cvisual.cpp:75: stray '\' in program
[etc]
> 
>   I looked at the define on line 26, which is:
> 
> #define CALLF(what) Object what(const Tuple& args, const Dict& kwargs) {  \
>       return ::what(args,kwargs); \
>     }
> 

I think I have seen this before.
As I recall, it indicates that the source file has some character
*after* that '\' (possibly as a result of having MS line endings
(\x0a0d) rather than unix (\x0a)).
A global search and replace should cure the problem.

Roger.


-- 
Roger Fearick
Dept. of Physics
University of Cape Town