Strange error

Garrett Cooper yanefbsd at gmail.com
Sat Jan 3 03:05:17 UTC 2009


On Jan 2, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Beech Rintoul wrote:

> I'm updating www/htmleditor an I'm getting the following error:
>
> /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.8 "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/ 
> lib" ._Makefile.PL ._Makefile
> Unrecognized character \x05 at ._Makefile.PL line 1.
> *** Error code 255
>
> I can't find any strange characters in the distfiles. Does someone  
> know what
> this means?
>
> Beech

Probably a corrupt distfile that should be deleted and refetched. I  
have no idea what the ENQ character does, and neither does Perl no  
doubt...
-Garrett


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