Re: Gnats bugs

[Andrew J. Gray]

Hi Jose,

> >>I have downloaded last version of gnats and, compiling to linux SUSE 8.2 
> >>I discovered some
> >>bugs (missing commas) in file gnats/getdate.y, lines 381, 387 and 393.
> >>They should read:
> >>(381)    { PC.rel_day += $1; }
> >>(387)    { PC.rel_hour += $1; }
> >>(393)    { PC.rel_minutes += $1; }

> >Thanks for reporting those bugs.  The lines certainly don't look
> >right, but I would like to understand a bit more about the problem.
> >What are the symptoms of the bugs?  Did bison produce error messages
> >when building the getdate.y file?  Did GNATS parse dates incorrectly?

> The problem I found was at compile time. In fact I believe that bison 
> produces error messages when parsing getdate.y which is part of the 
> source tar and, therefore is not produced by bison at that moment.

Thanks for that information.  The reason I am asking these questions
is that (a) I did not see any problems in my environment with
generating getdate.c from getdate.y and compiling getdate.o from
getdate.c; and (b) it appears that the getdate.y file is taken from
the source code for GNU tar, so any changes to it I would want to
report to the GNU tar maintainers.  If the file was just used in GNATS
I would simply change it as you did.  However, since it comes from tar
I would prefer not to introduce differences between the two versions
without understanding precisely why the changes are requried.

So, could you send me the details of the error message you say when
compiling getdate.c and the error messages bison produces when parsing
getdate.y in your environment?  Thanks.

Regards,

-- 
Andrew J. Gray
GNU GNATS Maintainer