Re: Errors in gawk-3.1.3 tests

[Aharon Robbins]

Either your version of bison is out of date, or you used byacc (Berkeley
yacc) to build gawk.  I'm guessing you upgraded by applying the
patch to 3.1.2, since bison/yacc should not have been run from the
full distribution.

In any case, this difference is harmless.

Thanks,

Arnold

> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:18:04 -0400 (EDT)
> From: soneill <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Errors in gawk-3.1.3 tests
>
> I built gawk-3.1.3 on my Linux system with no problems in either compiling
> or linking. I then ran "make check". All of the tests were passed, except
> for the following:
>       noparms.awk
>       parseme.awk
>       synerr1.awk
>
> In each case, the resulting output had a "parse error" where the correct
> output should have been "syntax error" For example, the _noparms output
> looks like this:
>
> gawk: noparms.awk:1: function x(a, b, c , ,) {}
> gawk: noparms.awk:1:                      ^ parse error
> gawk: noparms.awk:1: function x(a, b, c , ,) {}
> gawk: noparms.awk:1:                       ^ parse error
> EXIT CODE: 1
>
> whereas, the noparms.ok shows this:
>
> gawk: noparms.awk:1: function x(a, b, c , ,) {}
> gawk: noparms.awk:1:                      ^ syntax error
> gawk: noparms.awk:1: function x(a, b, c , ,) {}
> gawk: noparms.awk:1:                       ^ syntax error
> EXIT CODE: 1
>
> Can you give me some insight as to why this happens, and whether it can be
> corrected? My version of the Linux kernel is 2.2.18, my version of libc is
> 2.3.1, and my compiler is gcc 2.95.4. Thanks for any help you can give me.
>
> Steve O'Neill