problem while installing rancid 2.2.2

john heasley heas at shrubbery.net
Thu Sep 16 17:48:54 UTC 2004


Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 04:37:59PM +0545, Shekhar Basnet:
> While installing rancid-2.2.2 I am getting the following error. What is
> this error I am not understanding?? Can somebody make it out? 
> I am using Fedora 1. 
> 
> TIA
> shekhar.
> 
> [root at chulu rancid-2.2.2]# make install
> Making install in .
> gmake[1]: Entering directory `/home/shekhar/rancid-2.2.2'
> gmake[2]: Entering directory `/home/shekhar/rancid-2.2.2'
> /bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs /usr/local/rancid/util /usr/local/rancid/util/lg
> gmake[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/home/shekhar/rancid-2.2.2'
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/shekhar/rancid-2.2.2'
> Making install in include
> gmake[1]: Entering directory `/home/shekhar/rancid-2.2.2/include'
> gmake[2]: Entering directory `/home/shekhar/rancid-2.2.2/include'
> gmake[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
> gmake[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/home/shekhar/rancid-2.2.2/include'
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/shekhar/rancid-2.2.2/include'
> Making install in bin
> gmake[1]: Entering directory `/home/shekhar/rancid-2.2.2/bin'
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../include     -g -O0 -c hpfilter.c
> hpfilter.c:385:1: missing terminating " character
> hpfilter.c:386:1: missing terminating " character
> hpfilter.c: In function `usage':
> hpfilter.c:387: error: syntax error before "return"
> hpfilter.c:394:1: missing terminating " character
> hpfilter.c:395:1: missing terminating " character
> hpfilter.c: In function `vers':
> hpfilter.c:396: error: syntax error before "return"
> gmake[1]: *** [hpfilter.o] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/shekhar/rancid-2.2.2/bin'
> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

this is gcc bitching that a string constant spans multiple lines.  apply
rancid-2.2.2.p2 or better yet use rancid-2.3.1.



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