Re: `configure' and `make/bison' build issues

[vy]

On 12/05/06, Bob Proulx <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello v,
>
> Your posting generated some internal private discussion on the
> bug-coreutils mailing list.  You could read it through the web
> archive.  But I don't believe anyone has responded to you yet.  So let
> me summarize the problem and include you in the discussion.  Please
> keep replies to the mailing list so that everyone can participate.

Thanks Bob.

> 8--- snipped

> >
> > roamantic:~/continuing/_study/coreutils/lib vy$ bison -y getdate.y
> > getdate.y:215: unrecognized: %parse_param
> > getdate.y:215:    Skipping to next %
> > getdate.y:216: unrecognized: %lex_param
> > getdate.y:216:    Skipping to next %
>
> Thanks for reducing this to the smallest problem case.  I assume that
> the 'make' failed and this was what the failure reduced down to as a
> small example.
>
> This probably means that your version of bison is too old.  I don't
> know the details of %parse_parm but I will assume that you need to
> update your version of bison.  I do not see this issue when using
> bison 1.875d from Debian Sarge for example.  What version are you
> trying to use here?
>
>   bison --version

My system tells me I am running version 1.28.

> When building programs from CVS you will need to ensure that you have
> good versions of all dependent tools.  I don't know the complete list
> but certainly bison, autoconf, and automake at the least.

I'll see about collecting the set of tools needed to build from cvs, I
was under the mistaken impression that the `configure' script would
notice whether tools are missing or the version available is not
current enough.

Bob, your insights and suggestions are much appreciated. Thank you.

Van