Fwd: RE: Building bison?

[Ian Badcoe <ian_badcoe at yahoo dot co dot uk>]

> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 20:13:33 +0000
> To: Jörg Schaible <Joerg.Schaible@Elsag-Solutions.com>
> From: Ian Badcoe <ian_badcoe@yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: RE: Building bison?
>
> At 08:38 18/11/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> > Ian,
> >
> > please stay on the list for ongoing conversation ...
>
> Yeah, still here...

Sorry!  You meant put my replies on the list, I only just understood 
you.  I had no idea they weren't already.

I never understand why mail-lists don't use themselves as the reply-to 
address...

> > Ian Badcoe wrote on Monday, November 17, 2003 9:27 PM:
> > > At 14:40 17/11/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> > >> Ian Badcoe wrote on Monday, November 17, 2003 12:49 PM:
> > >> [snip]
> > >>>       1.875c behaves nicely to a ./configure and make but it then
> > >>> crashes immediately when I give it my input script.
> > >>
> > >> Just an idea: Since Cygwin compiles as Unix flavour, the original
> > >> source may not be prepared to read files with CRLF. Try to run it
> > >> from a binary mounted folder providing a file with LF endings only.
> > >
> > > If I invoke bison indirectly:
> > >          bash -c "/usr/bin/bison MyFile.y ..."
> > >
> > > Then it works, so I suspect it's more to do with invocation than CRLF.
> >
> > What is the value of your CYGWIN enrironment variable?
>
> I don't seem to have one.  Should I have?
>
> I've always just let the install program and scripts do as they wanted and 
> it's generally worked fine in the past.
>
> > > As a general question, is there generally a lot of difference between
> > > sources downloaded from GNU and one's acquired via cygwin?
> > > Or can one mix
> > > and match freely (bugs due to version differences notwithstanding)?
> >
> > Changes for a package are normally documented in /usr/doc/Cygwin.
>
> Aha!  I'll look there immediately, thanks.  Given the combination of 
> unix-style man pages and GNU-style info pages and windows-style *.hlp 
> pages and web-style *.htm pages, that's one location I wasn't even aware 
> of.  Many thanks.
>
> Ian B
>
> > Regards,
> > Jörg
> >
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