Problem compiling on Sparc/Solaris

[Russ Allbery]

Alex Moen <alexm at ndtel.com> writes:

> Seems to me that bison is not working properly.  It is not creating the
> y.tab.c file that the Makefile is trying to move to parsedate.c.

> Anyone know why this would be? 

> Attached is the y.output file from "bison-yv parsedate.c" (thank you man
> pages).  The y.tab.c file *never* gets created like it is supposed to...
> I am not a c programmer, so I am flying by the seat of my pants here.

I'm pretty mystified:

windlord:~/dvl/inn/lib> rm parsedate.c parsedate.o
windlord:~/dvl/inn/lib> bison --version
bison (GNU Bison) 1.875a
Written by Robert Corbett and Richard Stallman.

Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
windlord:~/dvl/inn/lib> make parsedate.c
Expect 6 shift/reduce conflicts
bison -y parsedate.y
conflicts: 6 shift/reduce
windlord:~/dvl/inn/lib> dir parsedate.*
-rw-r--r--    1 eagle    root        57340 Oct 24 12:32 parsedate.c
-rw-r--r--    1 eagle    root        23008 May 31 12:42 parsedate.y

This is the Bison that comes with Debian.  Maybe they fixed something.

You could try modifying Makefile.global to use /usr/ccs/bin/yacc instead
of bison -y and see if that works any better.

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