Re: [GNU Bison 2.4.2] testsuite: Failing tests of bison 2.4.2 on Solaris 8+9 w/Sun Studio 11+12

[Joel E. Denny]

Hi Dago,

On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:

> You can find them on the farm:
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 dam      csw      1204908 Apr 11 21:26
> /home/dam/mgar/pkg/bison/trunk/work/solaris9-i386/build-isa-i386/bison-2.4.2.8-cb76/tests/testsuite.log
> -rw-r--r--   1 dam      csw      1178858 Apr 11 21:35
> /home/dam/mgar/pkg/bison/trunk/work/solaris9-sparc/build-isa-sparcv8/bison-2.4.2.8-cb76/tests/testsuite.log
> 
> The problems seem to arise from
>  "/opt/csw/include/getopt.h", line 122: Error: Only one of a set of overloaded
> functions can be extern "C".
> This is from
>  CSWlibgnugetopt       libgnugetopt - Library containing getopt_long
>                        (sparc) 1.3,REV=2010.01.18
> a library to provide getopt_long which Solaris doesn't have by default.

Can you become jdenny on current9s and determine the exact commands that 
are necessary to build Bison with these failures?  That would save me a 
lot of time.  Thanks.