Re: Installing Bison from CVS

[Joel E. Denny]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Hans Aberg wrote:

> I get the following error:
> ./bootstrap: autoconf --force ...
> configure.ac:111: warning: AM_INTL_SUBDIR is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd
> m4/gettext.m4:362: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is expanded from...
> configure.ac:111: the top level
> configure:15873: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INTL_SUBDIR
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>       See the Autoconf documentation.

The last couple of times this came up, it was due to an old M4.  For 
example, Autoconf 2.61 requires at least M4 1.4.7.

> Which is the "official" method to get Bison from the CVS? On
>   http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=bison
> it is suggested
>   cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/bison co bison
> followed, I gather, by
>   cd bison
>   ./bootstrap
> Is this right?

That's what I do.