Re: cannot build bison-3.3.90 on Solaris 11.3, even with GNU m4

[Akim Demaille]

Hi Bruno,

Take two.

> Le 5 mai 2019 à 11:30, Bruno Haible <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> After installing GNU m4 1.4.18, bison 3.3.90 builds but "make check"
> (or "gmake check") fails. See the attached log files.
> log1 - configure
> log2 - make
> log3 - make check
> 
> Bruno
> <log1.txt><log2.txt><log3.txt>

Your logs show:

>   CC       examples/c/lexcalc/lexcalc-parse.o
>   LEX      examples/c/lexcalc/scan.c
>   CC       examples/c/lexcalc/lexcalc-scan.o
> gcc: error: ../examples/c/lexcalc/scan.c: No such file or directory
> gcc: fatal error: no input files

The error from GCC is that it does not see ../examples/c/lexcalc/scan.c, which 
is good, because it is not expected to be there: it's in the build tree, not 
the source tree, so it should be examples/c/lexcalc/scan.c.  But the line before

>   LEX      examples/c/lexcalc/scan.c

shows that this file should be there.  And there is no reference to 
$(srcdir)/examples/c/lexcalc/scan.c, AFAICT, except this Makefile snippet

> examples/c/lexcalc/lexcalc-scan.o: examples/c/lexcalc/scan.c
>       $(AM_V_CC)$(CC) $(DEFS) $(DEFAULT_INCLUDES) $(INCLUDES) 
> $(examples_c_lexcalc_lexcalc_CPPFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(AM_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) -MT 
> examples/c/lexcalc/lexcalc-scan.o -MD -MP -MF 
> examples/c/lexcalc/$(DEPDIR)/lexcalc-scan.Tpo -c -o 
> examples/c/lexcalc/lexcalc-scan.o `test -f 'examples/c/lexcalc/scan.c' || 
> echo '$(srcdir)/'`examples/c/lexcalc/scan.c
>       $(AM_V_at)$(am__mv) examples/c/lexcalc/$(DEPDIR)/lexcalc-scan.Tpo 
> examples/c/lexcalc/$(DEPDIR)/lexcalc-scan.Po
> #     $(AM_V_CC)source='examples/c/lexcalc/scan.c' 
> object='examples/c/lexcalc/lexcalc-scan.o' libtool=no \
> #     DEPDIR=$(DEPDIR) $(CCDEPMODE) $(depcomp) \
> #     $(AM_V_CC_no)$(CC) $(DEFS) $(DEFAULT_INCLUDES) $(INCLUDES) 
> $(examples_c_lexcalc_lexcalc_CPPFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(AM_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) -c 
> -o examples/c/lexcalc/lexcalc-scan.o `test -f 'examples/c/lexcalc/scan.c' || 
> echo '$(srcdir)/'`examples/c/lexcalc/scan.c

which correctly uses the build tree first, and then the source tree:

> `test -f 'examples/c/lexcalc/scan.c' || echo 
> '$(srcdir)/'`examples/c/lexcalc/scan.c


So I have no idea what is going on here.  AFAICT, the Makefile is correct.  I 
guess this is a portability issue with non-GNU Make, but I fail to spot where 
the problem might be.