indygreg / indygreg/PyOxidizer
error: Parse error: unexpected identifier 'packaging_rules' here
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Description
In a config parse error, the error is
> error: Parse error: unexpected identifier 'packaging_rules' here
"here" should say which line the problem is on.
This is sort of the next iteration of bug https://github.com/indygreg/PyOxidizer/issues/158 ;-)
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Start by locating the configuration parser and the code producing the "unexpected identifier" error, then reproduce the reported parse failure. Done means the error identifies the line containing the problem; the issue does not name a specific file or test to run.
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- Tech stack
- rust
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- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
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