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Hi,

On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 06:45:21PM -0900, Greg wrote:
> is there a simple solution to this?
> compiling on slackware 3.1, k-ver 2.0.35
> 
> gcc -O2 -Wall -pipe -DFAX_SPOOL_IN=\"/var/spool/fax/incoming\" -c
> mgetty.c
> gcc -O2 -Wall -pipe   -c logname.c -o logname.o
> gcc -O2 -Wall -pipe -DCONFDIR=\"/usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax\"
> -c login.c
> gcc -O2 -Wall -pipe -DCONFDIR=\"/usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax\"
> -c cnd.c
> gcc -O2 -Wall -pipe -DCONFDIR=\"/usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax\"
> -c conf_mg.c
> conf_mg.c:121: parse error before `/'
> make: *** [conf_mg.o] Error 1

Why, yes.  Usually this means "someone messed with an entry in policy.h
and broke the C syntax".

Revert all changes you made to policy.h and it should compile just fine.

NEVER EVER remove quote characters (" and ') from policy.h.

gert
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