Re: compiling bison-3.0 on AIX 5.3

[Michael Felt]

before I forget - since I was using 5.3 TL12 on a POWER7, I upgraded my 5.3
TL7 system to TL12 as well. This resolves the downlevel perl issues that
were issues earlier.


On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Michael Felt <address@hidden> wrote:

> I have spent the last two days 'experimenting'. I am sort of stuck because
> I cannot get flex to compile, and the tests seem to need that. Make
> (version 3.0.17.*cd) is completing, but the make check fails and stops
> almost immediately (just as the 3.0.0 version did).
>
> I am waiting for some suggestions from the flex (
> https://sourceforge.net/p/flex/bugs/157/) people, and/or instructions
> from "bison" on how to run at least some of the tests without flex.
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Michael Felt <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> i will try again with the tests. over the next few days. this sounds like
>> it may be a good way to learn probevue and/or dbx. And maybe remaster tprof,
>>
>> all as different ways to find where this test is doing a lot of "unknown"
>> activity.
>>
>> Michael
>> On Sep 21, 2013 6:03 AM, "Ken Moffat" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:36:38AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
>>> >  Killed it after more than 200 minutes CPU - memory use hadn't
>>> > changed, it was still using as much CPU as it could get, nothing
>>> > more in the output.
>>> >
>>>  Unfortunately, the new build didn't boot - looks as if ext4 isn't
>>> supported for '/' by the yaboot bootloader - so I started to back it
>>> up.  Discovered that testsuite.dir/at-groups/24-stderr had grown to
>>> 2.4G.  The first 19 lines are text, the twentieth line is "extremely
>>> long" (perhaps the rest of the file) and (eventually) renders as
>>> inverse question-marks (i.e. invalid UTF-8) when I try to browse
>>> it in vim.  I've copied the first 1K with 'dd', I'll attach that.
>>>
>>> ĸen
>>> --
>>> das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce
>>>
>>
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