Re: bison 2.4.1 on Msys Win7 /usr/local/share/bison/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4

[Hans Aberg]

On 9 May 2010, at 22:59, Dick Dunbar wrote:

> $ bison -d -y jamgram.y
> C:\Msys\local\bin\bison.exe: cannot open file
> `/usr/local/share/bison/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4': No such file or directory
> $ ls -l /usr/local/share/bison/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dick Administrators 98348 May  8 16:19
> /usr/local/share/bison/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4
>
> I installed initially from: bison-2.4.1-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma
> Then built the code from: bison-2.4.2 source (gnu.org)
>
> Any suggestions?

When building, you must somehow set the PREFIX so that it is your  
directory \Msys\ instead of /usr/, plus that the slashes go the other  
directions than on Unix-like systems. In addition, Bison uses M4,  
which must be installed.

I'm not sure how that works out on Windows systems - check the files  
INSTALL, configure and Makefile. - Hopefully somebody else here will  
provide more info.

  Hans