Bug#698760: magic: Excess newlines in distribution .tech files break their parseability

2013-01-23 Thread Ильяс Гасанов
Hello, and thank you for responding. В Срд, 23/01/2013 в 18:07 +0100, Roland Stigge пишет: > Hi Ilias, > > On 01/23/2013 11:47 AM, Ильяс Гасанов wrote: > > Package: magic > > Version: 7.5.229-1 > > Severity: important > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > I have detected an errant behavior at magic

Bug#698760: magic: Excess newlines in distribution .tech files break their parseability

2013-01-23 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi Ilias, On 01/23/2013 11:47 AM, Ильяс Гасанов wrote: > Package: magic > Version: 7.5.229-1 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > I have detected an errant behavior at magic loadtime when process > technology files are being parsed. Particularly, there are error > messages about DRC ru

Bug#698760: magic: Excess newlines in distribution .tech files break their parseability

2013-01-23 Thread Tim Edwards
Hello Roland, I just noticed that this bug report was concerning magic-7.5. In that case, you will probably need the file scmos/Makefile from the magic-8.0 distribution (attached), because it has the other corrections that are needed to avoid stripping backslashes in the techfiles. Please

Bug#698760: magic: Excess newlines in distribution .tech files break their parseability

2013-01-23 Thread Tim Edwards
Hello Roland, Looks like the gcc (4.7.2-5 in Debian) preprocessor just discards the "\" line endings instead of interpreting as line continuations, resulting in broken resulting files, as reported below. Is this a known issue? Please see also http://bugs.debian.org/698760 and please tell how w

Bug#698760: magic: Excess newlines in distribution .tech files break their parseability

2013-01-23 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi Tim, at Debian, a certain build issue of magic was found: Consider building scmos.tech, built like this, according to the log: [...] make[4]: Entering directory `/build/buildd-magic_7.5.220-1-amd64-6X73cI/magic-7.5.220/scmos/cif_template' ../../scripts/mkdirs objs mkdir objs rm -f objs/CIFin