Re: syntax errors in standard headers!?

I managed to "fix" things by doing the following:

cvsup
build & install new world & kernel
restore /var/db/pkg from a backup just before all my package info got 
corrupted

After that, everything seems to be able to build again. I could have sworn 
that I had already updated the world and kernel a couple times since the 
corruption, but perhaps my memory failed me.

Thanks very much for the time, response, and advice,
--
Evan Dower
Undergraduate, Computer Science
University of Washington
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>From: Doug White <dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com>
>To: Evan Dower <evantd_at_hotmail.com>
>CC: freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: syntax errors in standard headers!?
>Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:10:32 -0700 (PDT)
>
>On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Evan Dower wrote:
>
> > WIth the instability issues of late, I recently had a crash in the 
>middle of
> > portupgrading. This left many packages with no +CONTENTS file. Thus I
> > figured I would simply reinstall them. Unfortunately when I try to 
>reinstall
> > any of them I tend to get errors such as:
> > /usr/include/stdlib.h:46: error: syntax error before "typedef"
> > and
> > /usr/include/locale.h:42: error: syntax error before "struct"
> >
> > I get all kinds of other errors too. Basically not a whole lot is 
>working
> > properly, even though I have updated -CURRENT since the crash. Most 
>recently
> > on Thursday.
>
>Some port's .h file probably got corrupted and its leaving things in an
>insconsistent state when the system headers come along. Inspect a file
>that doesn't compile and trace the included files to find the corrupted
>one.
>
>--
>Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
>dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org

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