Re: AIX Compile problem

[rader]

 > > On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Gehring, Andrew     x66132 wrote:
 > > I'm trying to compile CF Engine 2.1.14 on AIX (5.3).
 > > 
 > > I'm using Visual Age C 7.0 (IBM)
 > > 
 > > the error:
 > > /bin/sh ../ylwrap cflex.l lex.yy.c cflex.c -- lex
 > > got /export/source/SRC/cfengine-2\.1\.14/src/
 > > Error: 1285-311 There are too many transitions.
 > > 636/2000 nodes(%e); 10327/12000 positions(%p); 921/2000 (%n); 2427723
 > > transitions
 > > 227/1000 packed char classes(%k)
 > > 16001/16000 packed transitions(%a)
 > > 0/34096 output slots(%o)
 > > 
 > > make[2]: *** [cflex.c] Error 1
 > > make[2]: Leaving directory `/export/source/SRC/cfengine-2.1.14/src'
 > > make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
 > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/export/source/SRC/cfengine-2.1.14/src'
 > > make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
 > > 
 > > I saw a message in the archives about needing bison, but I do have it
 > > 
 > > # bison -V
 > > bison (GNU Bison) 1.875
 > > Written by Robert Corbett and Richard Stallman.
 
 > From: "Brian E. Seppanen"
 > I'm not sure if this will help.  I've had a problem similar to what you
 > mention on solaris 9 (sparc)  with cfengine-2.1.13.  If I remember
 > correctly I had to move /usr/local/bin/yacc which I believe is part of the
 > bison package out of my path, and use /usr/ccs/bin/yacc.  I had to
 > specifically configure with /usr/ccs/bin/yacc in my path.  Once that was
 > done it compiled cleanly.   I too had a package using bison 1.875.   
 > Perhaps it's a bison bug...
 > 
 > I'm sure I'm going to encounter the issue again, because I obviously 
 > wasn't keeping notes as carefully as I should have been.

Fwiw, my notes say that /usr/ccs/bin/yacc yields the same
"too many transitions" error.  

My work-around is to ignore the fact that ylwrap fails (by adding
a dash in front of it's invocation in the Makefile)...

 jasmine(rader): diff Makefile.orig Makefile
 744c744
 <       $(SHELL) $(YLWRAP) $< $(LEX_OUTPUT_ROOT).c $@ -- $(LEXCOMPILE)
 ---
 >      -$(SHELL) $(YLWRAP) $< $(LEX_OUTPUT_ROOT).c $@ -- $(LEXCOMPILE)

Perhaps that hack will work for AIX 5.3 too.

steve 
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