[BUG?] Unknown character on 3.1.0 and 3.1.1

[Jana Babovakova]

Dear Tyrasuki,

please try to convert all to unix kind end of line as this should help. 
Please let us know about the outcome.
We are dealing with more pressing issues at the moment.

Thank you for understanding and good luck!
Happy routing,
Jana

Jana Babovakova (she/her) | BIRD Tech Support | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.

On 20. 05. 25 18:47, Tyrasuki via Bird-users wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am experiencing bird throwing a <FATAL> Unknown character error on 
> my configuration files.
> I suspect this might be related to CRLF vs LF, as all the positions it 
> reports unknown character seems to be EOL or blank spaces. I should 
> mention I am currently writing my configuration on a Windows machine, 
> but it has passed between Linux and Windows a couple times.
>
> As an example, trying to start BIRD 3.1.0 on an Alpine Linux edge box 
> gives the following:
>
> ns2:~# bird
> bird: 2025-05-20 18:39:55.659 [0001] <FATAL> 
> /etc/bird.d/defines/constants.def:2:31 Unknown character
> ns2:~# head /etc/bird.d/defines/constants.def
> # Local preference values
> define LP_UPSTREAM      = 100;
> define LP_PEER          = 200;
> define LP_DOWNSTREAM    = 300;
> define LP_OTHER         = 150;
> # ASNs
> define AS_SELF          = 209718;
> define AS_BOGON         = [
>    0,
> ns2:~#
>
> if I merge the second line with the first line to look like this:
> define LP_UPSTREAM      = 100;define LP_PEER          = 200;
>
> I get
>
> ns2:~# bird
> bird: 2025-05-20 18:41:02.547 [0001] <FATAL> 
> /etc/bird.d/defines/constants.def:2:61 Unknown character
>
> Similarly, on another box running Debian 12 with the pkg.labs.nic.cz 
> repository, on BIRD 3.1.1:
> bird3:~# bird
> bird: 2025-05-20 18:42:01.451 [0001] <FATAL> /etc/bird/bird.conf:1:26 
> Unknown character
> bird3:~# head /etc/bird/bird.conf
> router id 172.30.187.148;
>
> log "/var/log/bird.log" { error };
>
> ipv6 table master6;
> ipv4 table master4;
>
> include "filters/netlist/*.list";
> include "filters/AS.list";
> include "define/*.def";
> bird3~#
>
> Any suggestions would be welcome, as I am currently in the process of 
> refractoring my routers from BIRD1 to BIRD3, and this has put me at a 
> bit of a standstill. :)
>
> Kind regards, and thank you in advance for any response,
> Jori Vanneste / Tyrasuki
>

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