Re: I may be stupid, but I can't build CVS

[Russ Lewis]

Akim Demaille wrote:

> This is completely incomprehensible :(  I tried the same thing as you,
> and it works like a charm!  Someone else tried, and it does work :(

Well, it's ok.  I've obviously got something very weird with my box, but I
have a way to build now, and that's really what matters to me!

> In case you'd want to make a last try, I would suggest that you add
> --debug to the two invocations of autoreconf in bootstrap.  Also,
> there is (well, there will soon be) an official beta of Autoconf at
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/autoconf/autoconf-2.53a.tar.gz.  That will help
> making sure we run the same software.

I'm already running 2.53a.  If anybody's interested, I have the output from
the --debug version at
http://villagersonline.com/bison/autoreconf-debug.out

This log is of me building after I checked out from CVS ("cvs checkout
bison"), and then manually editing the bootstrap file.  I cat bootstrap so
you can see my changes, then run bootstrap.  The log is 88k or so.

> I'm really sorry for all the troubles you face.

Nah, don't worry about it.  I can now build, and that's the key for me.
Later, if I have the time and inclination, I'll try to figure out what's so
weird about my system, and supply a patch - either for the README, or for
the code itself.

> Ashamed.

Don't be!  Cutting-edge Free Software is hard to do.  You distribute
binaries to all of us (that's how I came to know bison in the first place,
of course), so we get to use the software.  It's not nearly so big a deal
if a developer has a small problem. :)

P.S. Yay!  I finally remembered to reply to help-bison, instead of only to
Akim.... :)

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