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title: MARKLESS_SOURCE_SYMBOL_CLAIMS_DIVERGED
description: "Emitted symbol claims for one source disagree: a Markless compiler error."
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**Error** from the compiler, while it builds your `.tsrx` files.

## What happened

Markless prints the message, the reason, and a suggestion:

```text
MARKLESS_SOURCE_SYMBOL_CLAIMS_DIVERGED: MARKLESS_SOURCE_SYMBOL_CLAIMS_DIVERGED: Source <source> has incompatible emitted symbol claims in <firstOwner> and <secondOwner>.
Merging contradictory claims would let one emitted sibling silently redefine a symbol another sibling already routes to.
Rebuild the source so every emitted sibling publishes the same rows for a shared symbol, and clear any stale build cache.
https://markless.dev/errors/MARKLESS_SOURCE_SYMBOL_CLAIMS_DIVERGED
```

Words in angle brackets change from case to case.

## How to fix it

Start with the suggestion in the message above.

This page has no guide yet. [Help write it](/contributing/improve-these-docs).

## Where it comes from

`@markless/compiler` raises this code. Source:

- [packages/compiler/src/passes/link/claim-manifest.ts](https://github.com/compiled-run/markless/blob/main/packages/compiler/src/passes/link/claim-manifest.ts)

Read [how to read a Markless error](/tooling/diagnostics), or go back to [all error codes](/errors).