Re: - Strange compiling error - found error....nevermind

From: Tom Dailey (tomd@waymark.net)
Date: 02/01/99


Unbelievable,

After doing a diff between the 2 directories, (which I had done, but didn't
notice it) I noticed that a comment in structs.h was wrong and fight.c
#defines structs.h and the first few files that compiled must have not.


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Dailey <tomd@WAYMARK.NET>
To: CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca <CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca>
Date: Monday, February 01, 1999 9:57 AM
Subject:  - Strange compiling error


>Hello,
>
>I have 2 directories, master_src and src.  I have edited the src directory
>and have gotten the mud to compile to fight.c.  It then gives me these
>errors:
>
>fight.c: In function `perform_violence':
>fight.c:1392: parse error before `/'
>fight.c:1392: parse error before `/'
>make[1]: *** [fight.o] Error 1
>
>I did modify fight.c but cannot seem to find the / or /* comment that might
>be causing
>the error.
>
>I then went back into master_src, compiled and no problem.  I then took
>fight.c from the
>master_src and moved it to src, backing up fight.c in that directory first.
>I compiled, and
>get the same parse error with the fight.c from master_src.
>
>So, here it is.  One file will compile fine within one directory, but not
>within a different directory.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tom
>
>
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