current-users: Re: Build breaks, 19980120, generating LintSysNormal.c for libc

Subject: Re: Build breaks, 19980120, generating LintSysNormal.c for libc
To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/20/1999 13:06:43

On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:

> /*ARGSUSED*/
> int
> #ifdef __STDC__
> accept(int arg1
> 
> It cuts off right there... Removing LintSysNormal.c and doing another "make
> depend" gives me:
> 
> ac /usr/src/lib/libc# rm LintSysNormal.c 
> ac /usr/src/lib/libc# make depend
> creating LintSysNormal.c
> /usr/src/lib/libc/sys/makelintstub: arith: syntax error: ""
> 
> *** Error code 2
> 
> Stop.

A failing hard drive tends to truncate files like that. At least it
indicates the bad blocks are being replaced. Perhaps it's time to do a
low-level format?