missing -lintl; expected conflicts

[Frank Heckenbach]

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Dear bison developers,

when building bison-1.28 on my Linux 2.4.0/K6, libc5 system
(gcc-2.95.2), I get undefined references to gettext(). Even though
configure seems to find that -lintl is needed, it doesn't add it to
$LIBS or $INTLLLIBS. (I helped myself by inserting `INTLLIBS="-lintl
$INTLLIBS"' into configure manually which is, of course, not a good
solution.)

[...]
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking whether included gettext is requested... no
checking for libintl.h... yes
checking for gettext in libc... no
checking for bindtextdomain in -lintl... yes
checking for gettext in libintl... checking for gettext in -lintl... yes
yes
[...]

(Those last two lines were in fact printed mixed up like this.)

What I actually meant to suggest (installed the current version only
to check it hadn't been done already) is the following:

When I have a large grammar with some number of expected S/R
conflicts and inadvertently introduce another conflict, bison's
output tells me only the total number of conflicts, so I have to
look at the `%expect' line to find out how many of them are new. I
think it would be a little more comfortable if bison gives me this
information directly:

--- bison-1.28/src/conflicts.c.orig     Wed Jan 20 23:55:06 1999
+++ bison-1.28/src/conflicts.c  Sat Jan  6 23:11:34 2001
@@ -393,6 +393,9 @@
       else if (src_total > 1)
        fprintf(stderr, _(" %d shift/reduce conflicts"), src_total);
 
+      if (src_total > 0 && expected_conflicts > 0)
+       fprintf(stderr, _(" (expected: %d)"), expected_conflicts);
+
       if (src_total > 0 && rrc_total > 0)
        fprintf(stderr, _(" and"));

Frank

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