RE: install bison

[Alvin Weigel]

Hi,
I did get Flex and Bison to configure and install.  I was able to get esnacc
to configure but ran into a problem immediately
doing the make.  Below is what I got when doing the make.  Do you know how I
can get this to work properly?  Thanks for any help.  Keep in mind that this
is an Alpha server running Tru64.

# ls
acconfig.h             c-lib                  configure
maketail               stamp-h
aclocal.m4             changelog              configure.in
mkinstalldirs          stamp-h.in
asn1specs              cmasn.def              copying                news
tbl-example
buildall.dsp           compiler               doc
policy.h               tbl-tools
buildall.vcproj        config.h               install
readme.txt             tcl-asn
buildall.vcproj7       config.h.in            install-sh             snacc.h
tcl-example
buildall_vc71.vcproj   config.log             install.txt
snacc_builds.dsw       tcl-lib
c++-examples           config.status          makefile
snacc_builds.sln       tcl-p
c++-lib                config_Used.h          makehead
snacc_builds.sln7      tcl-p.c
c-examples             config_win32.h         makehead.in
snacc_builds_vc71.sln  version.h
# pwd
/pro/work/al/asn/SNACC
# make
No suffix list.
Make: Don't know how to make all-redirect.  Stop.
#

-----Original Message-----
From: Laurence Finston [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 7:54 AM
To: Alvin Weigel
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: RE: install bison


Hi Alvin,

> run `autoconf' and `autoheader',  and then try running
> `configure' again, provided `autoconf' and `autoheader' exist on
> your machine.

I was a bit sloppy here.  You may need to run `aclocal' and you will
certainly need to run `automake' before running `configure':

aclocal && autoconf && autoheader && automake

You may need to run `automake' with the options `--add-missing' and
`--copy'.

I expect that the Bison package includes all the files `automake' expects
to find, `AUTHORS', `NEWS', etc.  If not, you can just type
`touch AUTHORS', etc., and that will satisfy `automake'.

I just happen to have a DECalpha workstation running Tru64 handy,
and neither aclocal, autoconf, autoheader, nor automake is installed on
it.  yacc is, however, so I suspect it will be in
your installation, too.

So if your installation doesn't have the GNU build tools, and you don't
want to or aren't able to install them, and you have no particular reason
for wanting to use Bison, like making a reentrant parser, you could just
use yacc.

On the other hand, any standard Linux or FreeBSD (I believe) distribution
will include these tools.  So if it would be possible for you to use a
machine running either of these operating systems, this may be the easiest
solution.

Laurence