Re: autoconf on maint branch

[Donovan Lampa]

That worked for me. Apologies for not reading all of the READMEs and thanks
very much for the help.

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 1:27 PM Hans Åberg <address@hidden> wrote:

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>
> > On 15 Jan 2018, at 18:08, Donovan Lampa <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to get a configure file on the maint branch so I can compile
> and
> > install bison. The branch doesn't come with a configure file, nor does it
> > contain an INSTALL file from what I could see.
>
> It's in the README file, I believe.
>
> # Getting branch 'maint' form archive:
> git clone -b maint https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/bison.git
>
> # Possibly fix lexer files say from bison-3.0.4:
> wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/bison-3.0.4.tar.xz
> tar -xf bison-3.0.4.tar.xz
>
> cp bison-3.0.4/src/scan-code.c bison/src/
> cp bison-3.0.4/src/scan-gram.c bison/src/
> cp bison-3.0.4/src/scan-skel.c bison/src/
>
>
> # Then, cf. file README-hacking:
> cd bison/
>
> git submodule update --init
>
> ./bootstrap
> ./configure
> make
>
> make check
> git diff
>
>
> > I'm on Mac OS X 10.13.2 and have a few things installed with homebrew so
> my
> > $PATH looks a little funny:
> >
> >
> /usr/local/opt/m4/bin:/usr/local/opt/gettext/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/Users/dlampa/.rvm/bin
>
> Normally, the more local locations are put first, so one can override. So
> you may set /usr/local/ first.
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