Re: autoconf on maint branch

[Hans Åberg]

> On 15 Jan 2018, at 18:08, Donovan Lampa <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to get a configure file on the maint branch so I can compile and
> install bison. The branch doesn't come with a configure file, nor does it
> contain an INSTALL file from what I could see.

It's in the README file, I believe.

# Getting branch 'maint' form archive:
git clone -b maint https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/bison.git

# Possibly fix lexer files say from bison-3.0.4:
wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/bison-3.0.4.tar.xz
tar -xf bison-3.0.4.tar.xz

cp bison-3.0.4/src/scan-code.c bison/src/
cp bison-3.0.4/src/scan-gram.c bison/src/
cp bison-3.0.4/src/scan-skel.c bison/src/


# Then, cf. file README-hacking:
cd bison/

git submodule update --init

./bootstrap
./configure
make

make check
git diff


> I'm on Mac OS X 10.13.2 and have a few things installed with homebrew so my
> $PATH looks a little funny:
> 
> /usr/local/opt/m4/bin:/usr/local/opt/gettext/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/Users/dlampa/.rvm/bin

Normally, the more local locations are put first, so one can override. So you 
may set /usr/local/ first.