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From: Adriaan van Os
Subject: compiling-update
Date: 23 Jan 2005, 23:12:49

jan.ruzicka@comcast.net wrote:

> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> -------
> TEST    fjf165a.pas:    ./fjf165a.cmp: line 40: unexpected EOF while  
> looking for matching `"'
> ./fjf165a.cmp: line 42: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> -------
> Does anybody have any idea what may cause this?

I can reproduce it now on Mac OS X 10.3, it doesn't happen on Mac OS X  
10.2. I guess it has something to do with the redirection used in the  
fjf165a.cmp script, but this is really something for shell-script  
experts:

> #!/bin/sh
>
> # Try setting German locale (locally ;-)
> #
> # Which variables do we really need to set? (Probably not all of
> # these, but better be safe than sorry. ;-)
> #
> # The complicated redirecting is necessary on Solaris' shell which
> # otherwise would give messages "couldn't set locale correctly"
> # in the variable assignments that can't seem to be redirected
> # normally.
>
> exec 3>&2 2> /dev/null
> LC_ALL=de_DE; export LC_ALL
> LC_CTYPE=de_DE; export LC_CTYPE
> LANG=de_DE; export LANG
> exec 2>&3
>
> # Test if German locale actually works (i.e., whether the locale
> # database is installed on the system)
> cat << EOF > dummy.c
> #include <ctype.h>
> #include <locale.h>
> int main()
> {
>   setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
>   printf ("%c\n", toupper ((unsigned char) '‰'));
> }
> EOF
> if gcc dummy.c > /dev/null 2>&1 && [ -r "$A_OUT" ] && [ x"`./"$A_OUT"  
> 2> /dev/null`" = x"ƒ" ]; then
>   rm -f "$A_OUT" dummy.c
>   $1 $2
>   if [ -r "$A_OUT" ] ; then
>     ./"$A_OUT"
>   else
>     echo "failed"
>   fi
> else
>   rm -f dummy.c
>   echo "SKIPPED: German locale not installed"
> fi

Regards,

Adriaan van Os

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