binutl-2.951

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 17 Jun 2001, Nick Clifton wrote:

> > When I configure binutl-2.951 with options: "
> > --host=i386-pc-msdosdjgpp   --target=mips-mips-elf
> > --build=i386-pc-msdosdjgpp" and then start Makefile I had report:  
> > 
> > C:/DJGPP/BIN/sh.exe ./../ylwrap "" ./itbl-parse.y y.tab.c
> > itbl-parse.c y.tab.h itbl-parse.h -- -d ./../ylwrap: -d: command not
> > found
[...]
> Normally the Makefile will check to see if there is a built bison
> compiler in your build directory, and if not it will use whatever the
> configure script told it to use for yacc.  Presumably you are not
> building bison (it is not a normal part of the binutils release), so
> my guess is that you do not have either bison or yacc installed in
> your search path.

Yes, that's probably the reason.

> You can download a copy of the bison sources and build your own copy.
> Try this page:
> 
>   http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/bison.html

Since the OP is trying to build a DJGPP port of Binutils, he might
wish to know that a precompiled binary of GNU Bison is available from
here:

 ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/bsn128b.zip