Re: Automake 1.9.4 won't pass all tests...

[BRM]

Thanks that did the trick.

Bison 1.875 had passed all its tests when I installed
it. I did upgrade m4 to 1.4.2 before installing trying
to install AutoMake. Installation was from source.

Thanks very much for the help. :->

Ben

--- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
<address@hidden> wrote:

> >>> "Ben" == Ben @ Yahoo <address@hidden>
> writes:
> 
>  Ben> Slackware 10.0.0 installation on a PII/233.  I
> upgraded m4
>  Ben> to 1.4.2, and also installed Diff Utils 2.8.1
> from
>  Ben> source.. Additionally, Bison 1.875 is
> installed, from
>  Ben> source I believe.
> [...]
>  Ben> cond35: running bison --version
>  Ben> bison (GNU Bison) 1.875
> [...]
>  Ben> /bin/sh ./ylwrap tparse.y y.tab.c tparse.c
> y.tab.h tparse.h y.output tparse.output -- bison -y 
> -d
>  Ben> ./ylwrap: line 111:  3888 Broken pipe         
>    $prog "$@" "$input"
> [...]
> 
> All these tests fail for the same reason: Bison
> aborts with
> "Broken pipe".  So it seems something is wrong with
> your
> installation of Bison or its communication with M4. 
> (The pipe
> is between Bison and M4.)
> 
> If you upgraded m4 after installing Bison, perhaps
> that caused
> it.  I'd suggest you reinstall Bison (better install
> Bison 2.0
> while you are at it, there is not much differences
> with 1.875),
> run Bison's test-suite, and then retry to install
> Automake.
> -- 
> Alexandre Duret-Lutz
> 
>