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From: rich@oxtrap.UUCP (K. Richard Magill)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Gnu, Compiling
Message-ID: <2544@oxtrap.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 88 02:19:01 GMT
References: <304@mtuni.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: rich@oxtrap.UUCP (K. Richard Magill)
Organization: Oxford, Ann Arbor
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In article <304@mtuni.ATT.COM> aaa@mtuni.ATT.COM (Aaron Akman) writes:
>I have successfully ported Gnu to a 386 box running UNIX.  Mostly, it
>works great and runs fast.  One problem:  when I compile (M-x compile)
>small simple files (this doesn't happen every time) I get a bogus
>error message from make.  For example, compiling uudecode.c yields:
>
>cd /usr/aaron
>make -k uudecode
>	cc -O uudecode.c -o uudecode
>"uudecode.c", line 181: syntax error
>*** Error code 1
>
>The same attempt outside of Gnu works without error.  The line number
>always corresponds to the last line in the file.  Any ideas?

Does your file end in a newline?

Try:

(setq require-final-newline 1)







rich.