Re: 1.875c install problem on solaris 2.9.

[Laurence Finston]

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> I'm trying to install bison 1.875c on a solaris 2.9 and I've run into a
little
> problem.  The configure correctly detects that stdint.h doesn't exist: 
> 
>   $ ./configure
>   checking for a BSD-compatible install... config/install-sh -c
>   checking whether build environment is sane... yes
>   checking for gawk... gawk
> 
>   [ blah blah blah ]
> 
>   checking for inttypes.h... yes
>   checking for stdint.h... no
>   checking for unistd.h... yes
> 
>   [ blah blah blah ]
> 
>   config.status: creating po/Makefile
>   config.status: executing tests/atconfig commands
> 
>   $
> 
> but the compile goes ahead and uses it anyway: 
> 
>   $ make
>   make  all-recursive
> 
>   [ blah blah blah ]
> 
>   Making all in src
>   make[2]: Entering directory `/home/rclayton/local/src/bison-1.875c/src'
>   make  all-am
>   make[3]: Entering directory `/home/rclayton/local/src/bison-1.875c/src'
>    gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DPKGDATADIR="/usr/local/share/bison"
>   -DLOCALEDIR="/usr/local/share/locale" -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I../lib
>   -I/usr/local/include   -g -O2 -MT LR0.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/LR0.Tpo -c -o
LR0.o
>   LR0.c
> 
>    [ blah blah blah ]
> 
>    gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DPKGDATADIR="/usr/local/share/bison"
>   -DLOCALEDIR="/usr/local/share/locale" -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I../lib
>   -I/usr/local/include   -g -O2 -MT scan-gram.o -MD -MP -MF
.deps/scan-gram.Tpo
>   -c -o scan-gram.o scan-gram.c 
>   scan-gram.c:36:55: stdint.h: No such file or directory
>   make[3]: *** [scan-gram.o] Error 1
>   make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/rclayton/local/src/bison-1.875c/src'
>   make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
>   make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rclayton/local/src/bison-1.875c/src'
>   make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>   make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rclayton/local/src/bison-1.875c'
>   make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
>   $ uname -a
>   SunOS clayton 5.9 Generic_112233-06 sun4u sparc
> 
>   $ g++ -v
>   Reading specs from
/usr/local2/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.3.2/specs
>   Configured with: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local2/stow/gcc-3.3.2
>   Thread model: posix
>   gcc version 3.3.2
> 
>   $ 
> 
> I have the full details if you want them.
> 

When autoconf detects that a header file doesn't exist,  a C preprocessor
variable will be undefined, e.g.,
#undef HAVE_STDINT_H (actually, I think it will just not be defined, but it
comes to the same thing).

If the `#include <stdint.h>' command isn't put inside in a conditional
construction like this:

#ifdef HAVE_STDINT_H
#include <stdint.h>
#else
...
#endif

then the C preprocessor will try to include it, which will cause the error.

I suggest just commenting out the `#include' command, but if this header file
contains declarations that are needed for compilation, it won't be long before
the next error occurs.  

Am I correct in assuming that you're not using GCC and the GNU C standard
library?  Have you checked that Bison has been ported to Solaris? 

Laurence Finston