Problem Running bison on LINUX

[Amit Tipnis]

Hello,

We have our application server running on SOLARIS and the installed
version of bison works perfectly fine. As a part of infrastructure
change, we are migrating to linux and when I try to run bison in the
same sub-directory, I get some weird errors (PATH prepending), which I
think should not have come. I don't know much about  bison, can anyone
throw some light on the errors below please?

Errors:

/usr/bin/bison -y --d
--skeleton=/home/gptsdev/bison-1.29.i386/share/bison/bison.simple bc.y
&& mv y.tab.c bc.c
bc.y:58.26: warning: stray `,' treated as white space
bc.y:58.32: warning: stray `,' treated as white space
bc.y:58.38: warning: stray `,' treated as white space
bc.y:58.48: warning: stray `,' treated as white space
bc.y:58.55: warning: stray `,' treated as white space
conflicts: 1 shift/reduce
/usr/bin/m4:
*/usr/share/bison//home/gptsdev/bison-1.29.i386/share/bison/bison.simple:
No such file or directory

******** Why is the path /usr/share/bison being preprended to my
skeleton file?
*
NONE:0: error: m4_divert_pop(0): diversion mismatch:
/usr/share/bison/c.m4:1: m4_divert: -1
stdin:1553: m4_divert_push: 0
stdin:1: m4_divert_push: KILL
NONE:0: the top level
/usr/bin/bison: subsidiary program `/usr/bin/m4' failed (exit status 1)
make: *** [bc.c] Error 1

Please let me know what / how can I resolve this. Thanks -Amit


My host details are:

*uname -a*
Linux nypumalxprd04 2.6.9-78.0.13.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jan 7 17:45:52 EST
2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

*bison -V*
bison (GNU Bison) 1.875c
Written by Robert Corbett and Richard Stallman.

Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is
NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.


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