problem with qif-parse.scm in trunk

[David Reiser]

On Sep 15, 2008, at 10:24 AM, Andreas Köhler wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 00:30 -0400, David Reiser wrote:
>> On Sep 14, 2008, at 4:05 PM, Charles Day wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 10:42 AM, David Reiser
>>> <dbreiser at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> gnucash trunk r17505 fails on launch for me with:
>>>
>>> Backtrace:
>>> In unknown file:
>>>  ?: 0* [primitive-load-path "qif-import/qif-parse.scm"]
>>> In /opt/gnucash-svn/share/gnucash/scm/qif-import/qif-parse.scm:
>>> 20: 1* (define decimal-radix-regexp #)
>>> 21: 2* [gsubr-apply #<primitive-procedure make-regexp> ...]
>>>
>>> /opt/gnucash-svn/share/gnucash/scm/qif-import/qif-parse.scm:21:3: In
>>> procedure make-regexp in expression (make-regexp "^ *[$?]?[+-]?[$?]?
>>> [0-9]+[+-]?$|^ *[$?]?[+-]?[$?]?[0-9]?[0-9]?[0-9]?([,'][0-9][0-9]
>>> [0-9])*(\\.[0-9]*)?[+-]? *$|^ *[$?]?[+-]?[$?]?[0-9]+\\.[0-9]*[+-]? *
>>> $"):
>>> /opt/gnucash-svn/share/gnucash/scm/qif-import/qif-parse.scm:21:3:
>>> illegal byte sequence
>>>
>>>
>>> Looks like something in r17490 didn't sit well with my tool set.
>>>
>>> Mac OS X 10.5.4
>>> gcc 4.0.1, autoconf 2.62 (2.63 readily available), automake 1.9.6
>>> (1.10.1 readily available)
>>> guile 1.8.3
>>>
>>> suggestions?
>>>
>>> Dave, I have just committed a patch that escapes the Pound symbol in
>>> ASCII. Try updating your SVN to r17509 and see if that fixes it on
>>> your system.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Charles
>>
>> Same error. I've looked at the scm file in the install directory, and
>> all the \xa3 substitutions are there. (In the prior version, bbedit
>> was showing me the GBP symbol in the scm files, too.)
>>
>> The only other thing I can think of that might matter is I'm using
>> slib 3b1.
>
> I cannot find that error message, neither in Guile 1.8.3 nor Slib 3b1.
> Do you know whether it comes from?
>
> Ciao,
> -- andi5
>
Looks like it is coming from Apple's libSystem.dylib. I'll see if I  
can find someone who knows about any Apple regex oddities.

Dave
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David Reiser
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