"Invalid PHP syntax" error triggered by non-PHP code in patch?

I debated if PIFR should check if the files changed are PHP or not, but then I figured that PHP syntax checker should work with HTML and such as you can embed PHP in an HTML page. So it should work fine if the patch doesn't have PHP in a file that it changes.

If you link to the actual patch I can check it out, otherwise one thought might be that the patch doesn't apply correctly and causes a PHP syntax error.

Please point me to the patch you are having the issue with.

I've reset all the issues to be retested in case an error cause that as I couldn't see problems myself.

I double checked and PHP syntax checker won't throw error if non-php file. My only guess is that the patches either didn't apply correctly or the file changed as non-php and had <? or <?php somewhere, but I ddin't see any of that...so not sure.

I'm getting this error for this patch: http://drupal.org/node/158445

It's a .htaccess patch. At my last check it applied just fine (though that may have changed recently)

Checkout my issues at #332967: Detect non-unix newlines