Strange error

Beech Rintoul beech at alaskaparadise.com
Sat Jan 3 03:23:18 UTC 2009


On Friday 02 January 2009 17:55:43 Garrett Cooper wrote:
> 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

It turned out to be a Mac encoded file that isn't needed. Thanks for the 
responses :-)

Beech
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