make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'install'. make[3]: Leaving directory '/Depot/jjj/binutils-27.01.2019/BUILD/sim/testsuite' make[2]: Leaving directory '/Depot/jjj/binutils-27.01.2019/BUILD/sim' make[2]: Entering directory '/Depot/jjj/binutils-27.01.2019/BUILD/gdb' CONFIG_HEADERS=config.h:config.in \ CONFIG_COMMANDS="default depdir" \ CONFIG_FILES= \ CONFIG_LINKS= \ /bin/sh config.status config.status: creating config.h config.status: config.h is unchanged config.status: executing default commands config.status: executing depdir commands make[3]: Entering directory '/Depot/jjj/binutils-27.01.2019/BUILD/gdb' make[4]: Entering directory '/Depot/jjj/binutils-27.01.2019/BUILD/gdb/build-gnulib' make[5]: Entering directory '/Depot/jjj/binutils-27.01.2019/BUILD/gdb/build-gnulib' make[6]: Entering directory '/Depot/jjj/binutils-27.01.2019/BUILD/gdb/build-gnulib/import' make all-recursive make[7]: Entering directory '/Depot/jjj/binutils-27.01.2019/BUILD/gdb/build-gnulib/import' make[8]: Entering directory '/Depot/jjj/binutils-27.01.2019/BUILD/gdb/build-gnulib/import' make[8]: Nothing to be done for 'all-am'. make[8]: Leaving directory '/Depot/jjj/binutils-27.01.2019/BUILD/gdb/build-gnulib/import' make[7]: Leaving directory '/Depot/jjj/binutils-27.01.2019/BUILD/gdb/build-gnulib/import' make[6]: Leaving directory '/Depot/jjj/binutils-27.01.2019/BUILD/gdb/build-gnulib/import' make[5]: Leaving directory '/Depot/jjj/binutils-27.01.2019/BUILD/gdb/build-gnulib' make[4]: Leaving directory '/Depot/jjj/binutils-27.01.2019/BUILD/gdb/build-gnulib' make[3]: Leaving directory '/Depot/jjj/binutils-27.01.2019/BUILD/gdb' YACC rust-exp.c /Depot/jjj/binutils-27.01.2019/BUILD/gdb/../../gdb/rust-exp.y:28.1-7: error: POSIX Yacc does not support %expect [-Werror=yacc] %expect 1 ^~~~~~~ make[2]: *** [Makefile:2469: rust-exp.c] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory '/Depot/jjj/binutils-27.01.2019/BUILD/gdb' make[1]: *** [Makefile:10450: install-gdb] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/Depot/jjj/binutils-27.01.2019/BUILD' make: *** [Makefile:2226: install] Error 2 Not sure if I did anything wrong here. I tried to install it into my home account as superuser via the following configure script. ../configure --prefix=/root --enable-64-bit-bfd --enable-gold=no --enable-plugins --enable-shared --disable-nls --disable-werror GCC version is 8.2.0 and the other tools should be quite up to date. PS: Is this in any way related to the rust language? Anyway, I will try a git clone without gdb; may be easier, but I report the above error line in regards to POSIX Yacc either way as it may perhaps be useful. Could also be related to elfutils, but I think it would be very helpful if, in any way, the error message or indicator message could be more verbose. Googling for this error right now led to only marginal results that did not help a lot (possibly also because only quite few people may be using git clone, compared to those who just use the latest stable binutils variants). PSS: May also be helpful to show the git clone command for just checking out binutils but without gdb. I did: git clone git://sourceware.org/git/binutils.git but I am no git expert so I have no idea if that just works; may be helpful to affirm that this works on the webpage for binutils mentioned above (well, this one https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/ ).
> git clone git://sourceware.org/git/binutils.git No, don't do that. binutils.git is an old repository (that probably should be deleted to stop user confusion). If you want to just build binutils from the proper binutils repository, binutils-gdb.git, configure with --disable-gdb --disable-sim --disable-readline --disable-libdecnumber.
gdb requires a "recent enough" version of either bison or byacc, because at least one parser in gdb has to be "pure" (aka reentrant). So, a plain POSIX yacc isn't supported. Normally, I believe, gdb releases are done such that the end user doesn't need bison. However, if you are building out of git, you do. Given this, I'm going to close this bug as invalid. Thank you.