Re: incompatibility between binutils and bison 1.50

[H. J. Lu]

On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 10:28:33PM -0500, Jeremy Buhler wrote:
> I attempted to build binutils 2.13.90.0.10 (updated from development
> tree 20021010) on a Linux system using the latest released version of
> bison, v1.50.  The build failed at ld/ldgram.y due to the new bison's
> stricter checking of rule types.  In particular, if a rule has an
> internal action but no final action, then the type of the default
> action {$$ = $1} is checked, whereas it was ignored in previous
> versions of bison.
> 
> The attached patch adds empty default rules in the two places that
> cause compile errors with bison 1.50.
> 

Thanks for your bug report. It has been fixed in CVS and will be fixed
in 2.13.90.0.11. In the meantime, don't use bison 1.50 on binutils
2.13.90.0.10 and below.



H.J.