Yesterday, I had to cross compile another downloaded source from the net and I got this error:

"stray '\' in program"

I was wondering I suddenly got this error, since when I was compiling a previous version of the source, this error does not appear. Tried to find out what type of error this is using google of course :) It so happened that the source i guessed were edited in Windows. Have to change the file format from dos to unix.

Solution I did:
# dos2unix *.[ch]