RE: Gnats Installation error

[Kevin Olds]

 Yngve,

  I entered the bug. Here's an interesting point though: I didn't have bison
installed. So, I went ahead and istalled it. The makefile started using that
rather than yacc. 
  Of course, now I've hit another problem:

Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
yylex                               libgnats.a(pr-init.o)

  Recognizing that yylex is generated by flex, I tried installing that. It
didn't help.

Thanks,
Kevin


-----Original Message-----
From: Yngve Svendsen
To: Kevin Olds; bug-gnats@gnu.org
Sent: 11/27/01 4:10 PM
Subject: RE: Gnats Installation error

At 14:33 27.11.2001 -0500, Kevin Olds wrote:
>Yngve,
>
>   Thanks for the info. I've downloaded GNATS 4.0 from Savannah, and am
now
>trying to install that. I've run into a problem with yacc. The Makefile
>errors out on the following:
>
>$(YACC) -o getdate.c $(srcdir)/getdate.y
>
>I get an error saying that -o is an illegal option for yacc. I'm trying
to
>build GNATS on an Ultra 5 running Solaris 2.8.

I am not an expert on the build system, but it seems clear that
configure 
has messed up so that a bison-only option is being passed to yacc. If
you 
have bison on your system (I am fairly certain you have), you could try
to 
hack the Makefile by substituting $(YACC) with 'bison'.

Would you mind going to http://bugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl and fill

out a bug report? Login with password/username guest/guest and choose
the 
database name 'gnats'.

Yngve Svendsen
GNATS 4 doc guy