RE: Gnats Installation error

[Kevin Olds]

Yngve,

  Thanks for the info. I've downloaded GNATS 4.0 from Savannah, and am now
trying to install that. I've run into a problem with yacc. The Makefile
errors out on the following:

$(YACC) -o getdate.c $(srcdir)/getdate.y 

I get an error saying that -o is an illegal option for yacc. I'm trying to
build GNATS on an Ultra 5 running Solaris 2.8.

Any thoughts?
Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: Yngve Svendsen
To: Kevin Olds; 'bug-gnats@gnu.org'
Sent: 11/26/01 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: Gnats Installation error

At 11:46 26.11.2001 -0500, Kevin Olds wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>   I received an error while trying to install GNATS 3.113.1 on both a
>Solaris 2.6 box and a Solaris 2.8 box. When running the command 'make
all
>info', I received a fatal error telling me that "target all-libiberty"
>failed.
>   Any light you could shed on this would be helpful.

Libiberty is a library shipped with GNATS, which provides some functions

that are missing from the standard libraries of some OSes.
Unfortunately, 
the version that comes with GNATS 3.113.1 is very old and won't build on

Solaris 8. The problem has been reported before. I don't think anyone
ever 
posted a solution, but you may want to have a look in the mailing list 
archives in order to make sure.

This is unlikely to be fixed, since this problem is not present in GNATS
4, 
which is getting close to release.

Yngve Svendsen
Gnatsweb maintainer