Re: How do I make a relocatable bison?

[Akim Demaille]

Hi David,

> Le 19 févr. 2015 à 00:54, David Barto <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> I’m going to configure and build it for $HOME/tools however when it gets to 
> the customer they are going to install it in <whereever>/tools
> 
> When I try to run it after moving the configured directory I get the 
> following:
> 
> I configured for /opt/sparqlcity and then renamed that directory to 
> /opt/ubuntu-tools to test that the tools would continue to work. GCC works 
> just fine with a LD_LIBRARY_PATH correction. How do I get bison to work in 
> the same way?
> 
> 
> bison: /opt/sparqlcity/share/bison/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: cannot open: No such 
> file or directory
> *** cmd: /home/scl/DEV/asd-encapsulate/source/tools/bison.sh 
> /home/scl/DEV/asd-encapsulate/dobj/parse/sbxgrammar.cpp 
> /home/scl/DEV/asd-encapsulate/source/parse/sbxgrammar.y
> *** Error code 1

Bison is not relocatable.  But you can toy with
environment variables such as BISON_PKGDATADIR to move it.
Have a look at tests/bison to see how.