Subject: error: unknown escape sequence '\#'
To: None <port-sparc64@NetBSD.org>
From: Raymond Meyer <raymond.meyer@rambler.ru>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 09/15/2006 11:34:57
Hi, I'm trying to build NetBSD for sparc/sparc64 on Solaris 10. The build fails
with the following error message, can anyone suggest why this happens on
Solaris and not on NetBSD?

#    create  bootblk/.depend
rm -f .depend
CC=/opt/tools.sparc/bin/sparc--netbsdelf-gcc /opt/tools.sparc/bin/nbmkdep -d -f .depend -s .o\ .ln 
ln -s /opt/src/sys/arch/sparc/stand/bootblk/../../../sparc/include machine
/opt/tools.sparc/bin/nbgenassym -f -- /opt/tools.sparc/bin/sparc--netbsdelf-gcc -O2 -msoft-float -ffreestanding -mtune=ultrasparc   -Werror -Os -pipe -I. -I/opt/src/sys/arch/sparc/stand/bootblk/../../../../arch -I/opt/src/sys/arch/sparc/stand/bootblk/../../../.. -I/opt/src/sys/arch/sparc/stand/bootblk/../../../../../common/include -nostdinc   -D_LKM -D_KERNEL -DSTANDALONE -I.  -nostdinc -isystem /opt/obj.sparc/destdir.sparc/usr/include    </opt/src/sys/arch/sparc/stand/bootblk/genfth.cf >assym.fth.h.tmp &&  mv -f assym.fth.h.tmp assym.fth.h
/tmp/genassym.9833/assym.c:20:7: error: unknown escape sequence '\#'
/tmp/genassym.9833/assym.c:21:7: error: unknown escape sequence '\#'
/tmp/genassym.9833/assym.c:22:7: error: unknown escape sequence '\#'
/tmp/genassym.9833/assym.c:23:7: error: unknown escape sequence '\#'

... and so on

/opt/tools.sparc/bin/nbfgen -o bootblk /opt/src/sys/arch/sparc/stand/bootblk/bootblk.fth
/opt/tools.sparc/bin/nbfgen: undefined token `sbsize'
*** [bootblk] Error code 1
1 error

nbmake: stopped in /opt/src/sys/arch/sparc/stand/bootblk
*** [dependall] Error code 2
1 error