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Re: Setup cvs HEAD build problems
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Robert Collins <rbcollins at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 23:48:10 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Setup cvs HEAD build problems
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
Rob,
There was a follow-up message: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-10/msg00152.html
That eliminates #1. I don't know how to fix #2 -- could have something to
do with cvs checkout timestamps. I don't believe it was addressed,
though.
Igor
On 10 Mar 2003, Robert Collins wrote:
> Igor, have we address points 1 & 2 below? I don't recall...
>
> Rob
>
> On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 14:08, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Just checked setup out from cvs
> > (:pserver:anoncvs at sources dot redhat dot com:/cvs/cygwin-apps) and tried to build.
> > I created a new directory, from there ran "$(SETUP_SOURCE)/configure" with
> > all the options listed on http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html
> > (except changing "gcc" to "gcc-2" and "g++" to "g++-2"), and then "make".
> > I previously built setup from the distribution source (2.249.2.5) on the
> > same machine / software / package configuration with no problems.
> >
> > Here are some problems I've encountered with the cvs HEAD:
> >
> > 1) Makefile.am has direct calls for flex and bison. I have byacc
> > installed instead of bison, and configure found it and set YACC to it.
> > When I changed the rule to use $(YACC) instead of bison, make was able to
> > proceed. I'm attaching a patch for Makefile.am that fixes it (it also
> > uses $(LEX) instead of flex).
> >
> > 2) zlib doesn't build as checked out from cvs. The reason is that the
> > dependences are all screwed up. Running 'touch aclocal.m4 Makefile.in
> > configure Makefile' in zlib fixed the dependences. Oh, and it tried to
> > rebuild all of them and failed, since I have CVSREAD defined, and the
> > files couldn't be overwritten. I'm not sure if there's a fix for this.
> > Also, the autotools files in zlib were generated for an older version than
> > is currently available, so the only way to regenerate them would be all at
> > once...
> >
> > 3) I get a 'yylval not defined' when compiling inilex.cc. The exact
> > message is:
> > g++-2 -mno-cygwin -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"setup\" -DVERSION=\"0\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_LIBMINGW32=1 -DHAVE_ERRNO_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -I. -I/usr/src/setup-cvs/setup -I/usr/src/setup-cvs/setup/bz2lib -I/usr/src/setup-cvs/setup/libgetopt++/include \
> > -I/usr/include/g++-3 -Winline -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wcomments -I/usr/src/setup-cvs/setup/bz2lib -I/usr/src/setup-cvs/setup/libgetopt++/include -g -O2 -c -o inilex.o inilex.cc
> > /usr/src/setup-cvs/setup/inilex.l: In function `int yylex()':
> > /usr/src/setup-cvs/setup/inilex.l:50: `yylval' undeclared (first use this function)
> > /usr/src/setup-cvs/setup/inilex.l:50: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> > /usr/src/setup-cvs/setup/inilex.l:50: for each function it appears in.)
> >
> > This is probably due to the differences between byacc and bison. It would
> > be nice if there was a mention somewhere that setup requires bison to
> > build. If that is indeed the case, though, please ignore the attached
> > patch...
> >
> > I'll try installing bison and rebuilding tomorrow... Sorry for the rant.
> > Igor
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