Re: compiling bison-3.0 on AIX 5.3

[Paul Eggert]

Michael Felt wrote:
> how to correct?

Change the Makefile to not use '-f'.  I pushed the following
into the Savannah bison git maint branch; does it work for you?

>From 3d30af8aa51d9cd1697ea811b3f91e84c94b16a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 07:52:27 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] build: port to pre-5.8.7 perl

* examples/local.mk (extract): Omit -f from perl options.
This doesn't work with perl versions before 5.8.7
that are configured without USE_SITECUSTOMIZE.
Reported by Michael Felt in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2013-08/msg00006.html>.
---
 examples/local.mk | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/examples/local.mk b/examples/local.mk
index 05e28e1..c79c800 100644
--- a/examples/local.mk
+++ b/examples/local.mk
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ AM_CXXFLAGS =                                                 
\
 
 doc = $(top_srcdir)/doc/bison.texi
 extexi = $(top_srcdir)/examples/extexi
-extract = VERSION="$(VERSION)" $(PERL) -f $(extexi) $(doc) --
+extract = VERSION="$(VERSION)" $(PERL) $(extexi) $(doc) --
 extracted =
 CLEANFILES += $(extracted) examples/extracted.stamp
 examples/extracted.stamp: $(doc) $(extexi)
-- 
1.7.11.7