Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 07:11:57 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>, bsd@perimeter.co.za, "FreeBSD Question List" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Bison Message-ID: <200302280711.57105.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20030228084349.01e0b3b8@sage-one.net> References: <courier.3E5F3B12.000043F0@perimeter.co.za> <3.0.5.32.20030228084349.01e0b3b8@sage-one.net>
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On Friday 28 February 2003 06:43 am, Jack L. Stone wrote: > At 06:20 AM 2.28.2003 -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > >On Friday 28 February 2003 02:33 am, bsd@perimeter.co.za wrote: > >> Hi all! > >> > >> I am trying to 'make' the bison port, but it keeps failing. Has > >> anyone experienced this problem? > >> > >> I have retried after cvsup every day this week, so - yes - my > >> sources are up to date. > >> > >> Here's the last bit of the output: > >> =================================== > >> > >> Making all in doc > >> makeinfo --no-split -I . `test -f 'bison.texinfo' || echo > >> './'`bison.texinfo -o bison.info > >> bison.texinfo:37: Unknown command `copying'. > >> bison.texinfo:58: Unmatched `@end'. > >> bison.texinfo:93: Unknown command `insertcopying'. > >> makeinfo: Removing output file `bison.info' due to errors; use > >> --force to preserve. > >> *** Error code 2 > > > >Bison-1.75 needs a texinfo that is only available on FreeBSD-4.7 or > >later. You either have to upgrade your texinfo to what is on 4.7 or > >upgrade to 4.7 to use bison-1.75. > > > >Kent > > I know this was discussed many months ago, but I've forgotten what > Bison is used for....?? I notice it doesn't exist on most of my > servers and they all have 4.7. > I think it is a finite state machine generator similar to yacc. The port description only talks about it being a file parser. It is a port that is used by a number of other ports during their build process. If it isn't on your systems, then, you haven't built any ports that needed bison. It is only installed on the computer that I use to build packages for use on my other systems. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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