Re: Bison fails on Itanium/SLES

[Joel E. Denny]

On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Patrick Begou wrote:

> I need bison to build a large open-source CFD application. I've tried
> to run bison on the Dell computer and on the Altix 450 for the
> same file to try a comparison (even if make check fails on the Altix):
> /data/begou/bison-2.4.1/tests/bison -v -d -y  
> ./scotch_5.1/src/libscotch/parser_yy.y
> 
> It works on the Dell computer and fails on the Altix with:
> 
> /data/begou/bison-2.4.1/data/yacc.c:158: /usr/bin/m4: Warning: Excess 
> arguments to built-in `_m4_popdef' ignored
> /data/begou/bison-2.4.1/data/yacc.c:1071: /usr/bin/m4: Warning: Excess 
> arguments to built-in `_m4_popdef' ignored
> /data/begou/bison-2.4.1/data/yacc.c:1740: /usr/bin/m4: Warning: Excess 
> arguments to built-in `_m4_popdef' ignored
> /data/begou/bison-2.4.1/data/yacc.c:1741: error: m4_divert_pop(0): diversion 
> mismatch:
> /data/begou/bison-2.4.1/data/yacc.c:155: m4_divert_push: 0
> stdin:1: m4_divert_push: KILL
> /data/begou/bison-2.4.1/data/yacc.c:1741: the top level
> /data/begou/bison-2.4.1/src/bison: subsidiary program `/usr/bin/m4' failed 
> (exit status 1)
> 
> m4 is:
> -> m4-1.4.11-11.1 on the Dell computer
> -> m4-1.4o-622.1 on the Altix 350 (SLES9)
> -> m4-1.4.4-12.2 ont the Altix 450 (SLES10)

Bison 2.4.1's README states that it requires M4 1.4.6 or later.  That 
should explain why the Dell works and the others don't.