Re: trying to contribute but got an error during the setup

[Stéphane Archer]

Hi Spotlight,

Thank you for the help!
I was able to successfully build!
I know have to remember how to properly code in C (it's been such a
long time I just feel like I'm retarded right now)

it would be great if bison 2.4 or lower is installed to get an error for
future users.

Best regards

Stephane Archer

On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 8:17 PM Spotlight <spotlight@joscomputing.space>
wrote:

> All,
>
> Looking into this issue, it appears the version of bison included with
> macOS' Command Line Tools/via Xcode is too old to utilize (2.3, as of
> writing). After changing $PATH to use a newer version of bison via
> Homebrew or MacPorts, I was able to successfully build coreutils.
>
> configure.log shows this:
>     checking for bison 2.4 or newer... 2.3, bad
> Should it instead error?
>
> Hope this helps :)
> Spotlight
>
> (P.S., a minor thing: bootstrap may want to also check for wget in order
> to fetch translations)
>
>

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Best Regards,

Stephane Archer