Re: `configure' and `make/bison' build issues

[Brian Dessent]

vy wrote:

> roamantic:~/continuing/_study/coreutils/lib vy$ bison -y getdate.y
> getdate.y:215: unrecognized: %parse_param
> getdate.y:215:    Skipping to next %
> getdate.y:216: unrecognized: %lex_param
> getdate.y:216:    Skipping to next %

This could mean the version of bison that you have installed is not
sufficient.  It is odd that you are running this by hand though,
shouldn't this be the result of 'make' output?  You should never have to
invoke tools directly like that, AFAIK.

> roamantic:~/continuing/_study/coreutils vy$ ./configure
> --prefix=/Users/vy/local --exec-prefix=/Users/vy/local/ppc
> ./configure: line 9: =======: command not found
> ./configure: line 12: syntax error near unexpected token `>>'
> ./configure: line 12: `>>>>>>> 1.277'

This indicates that there was a conflict when you tried to update the
file "configure" from cvs, and cvs indicated the conflicting hunks with
those characters (which cause it to no longer be a valid shell script.) 
This would happen for example if you modified the file locally and then
tried to patch/"cvs up" it and didn't notice the conflicts.

I suggest that you start over with a fresh checkout of the source, or at
the very least, do a "cvs up -C configure" (which will replace your copy
of configure with the current one from the repository.)  There may be
other files with conflicts though.  In general whenever you do a "cvs
up" or apply a patch you have to look at the output of the command for
files with conflicts and manually fix them by hand before they will ever
build.  Also it is strange that there would be conflicts on a file like
configure because that is a generated file that should never be hand
edited, so I don't see how you would get conflicts.

Consult the CVS manual for information on conflicts, there is a whole
section about this (10.3 in my copy.)  You should have gotten a warning
from cvs that there were conflicts (and/or seen "C" as the status
character next to the filename.)

Brian