Re: junk after endif

Chuck Robey wrote:

> in making the environment for my new sparc box, I'm building a new 
> buildworld for the sparc, that that's giving me REAMS of useless 
> errors about "junk at the end of the line", you know what it is from 
> watching the error come up from cpp listings...except that these come 
> from make, not from C code... having this come up in the situation I'm 
> in, with zero (besides merely a KERNCONF) in the /etc/make.conf, then 
> having this error come up so often it obscures the real listing is 
> egregiously crazy.
>
> So, the fix falls into one of these categories:
>
> 1) there is a magic incantation I don't know, and don't have time to 
> hunt down, that kills this warning in make, and I need to know this, 
> but that's not the fix ... the fix is (possibly) to make the default 
> action that this is NOT a warning.
>
> 2) I know that many folks like to do this to endif's, but it's an 
> warning in C, and we should tell the folks who like it "tough" and 
> take them out.
>
> However it's decided, to squish the warning or to squish the tags, 
> it's unacceptable to leave those semantically useless warnings laying 
> about, hiding real problems.
>
I got them when going from HEAD to RELENG_5_3 ... rm -r /usr/obj fixed it.

Regards,

-- 
Matthew Sullivan
Specialist Systems Programmer
Information Technology Services
The University of Queensland