Re: [bug-inetutils] Present release goals

[Mats Erik Andersson]

Some good news, at least a starting point.

tisdag den 18 oktober 2011 klockan 05:40 skrev Alfred M. Szmidt detta:
> 
>    lördag den 15 oktober 2011 klockan 08:22 skrev Alfred M. Szmidt detta:
>    >     FreeBSD and OpenBSD fail while compiling "ftpd/ftpcmd.o".
>    > 
>    > Can you try doing a `make distclean; ./configure && make all"?  It
>    > seems that sometimes if you copy the whole tree with gnulib, there are
>    > files that are left from where you generated things on.  `make
>    > distclean' should fix this.
> 
>    Identical error persists for FreeBSD as well as for OpenBSD.
> 
> That sucks, will look into it.

The problem lies in the generation step

   ftpd/ftpcmd.y  -->  ftpd/ftpcmd.c

I did the experiment of bringing in a successfully
compiled source tree from GNU/kFreeBSD to OpenBSD.
After "make distclean" and "configure --with-wrap",
the full source content is indeed compilable also
on OpenBSD!

However, if I take a "bootstrapped-only" source tree
and run "make distclean", the compilation will halt
at "ftpd/ftpcmd.c". Read this file name once more!

Next, I move to the directory imported from GNU/kFreeBSD,
followed by distclean, renewed configuration, and also
manual removal of "ftpd/ftpcmd.c". Now also this source
tree failes to compile: an error appears at the already
mentioned place.

Lesson learned:

   1) "ftpd/ftpcmd.c" is never removed by the target "distclean";
      thus is never regenerated by Bison, once the file already is
      present.

   2) The transformation of "ftpd/ftpcmd.y" is sufficiently
      distinct for Bison present in GNU/* and FreeBSD/OpenBSD
      for the header files to be a source of problems.

Analysis continues! Best regards for now,
  Mats