Re: error: invalid character `' (ASCII 0) near line 164, column 2

[John W. Eaton]

On 26-Dec-2009, Ben Abbott wrote:

| On Dec 26, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
| 
| > On Dec 25, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
| > 
| >> Is anyone else seeing this?
| >> 
| >> ../../run-octave -f -q -H -p . --eval "geometryimages ('voronoi', 'txt');"
| >> warning: invalid character `' (ASCII 0) near line 92, column 2
| >> error: invalid character `' (ASCII 0) near line 164, column 2
| >> parse error near line 164 of file 
/Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/local_clone/scripts/set/unique.m
| >> 
| >> syntax error
| >> 
| >> error: called from:
| >> error:   
/Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/local_clone/scripts/optimization/__all_opts__.m
 at line 56, column 11
| >> error:   
/Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/local_clone/scripts/optimization/PKG_ADD 
at line 1, column 0
| >> 
| >> make[3]: *** [voronoi.txt] Error 1
| >> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
| >> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
| >> make: *** [all] Error 2

Problems like this have been reported in the past, but I don't know
what is causing the problem.  I can't reproduce the problem, and I
don't recall anyone reporting a diagnosis or solution.

| The file fullfile.m also does not end with an EOL character.

What do you mean by EOL?

What version of flex are you using, and precisely what command was
used to generate lex.cc?

| Perhaps this problem is due to ...
| 
|       http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/7ad32bf759c3
| 
|       
https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2009-December/014382.html

It seems unlikely that moving the "#include <config.h> statement to
the top of the file would have caused this problem, but could you test
it by undoing that change and seeing if that fixes the problem for you?

jwe