Re: Cannot configure current cvs checkout

[Martin MOKREJŠ]

On Sun, 26 Apr 2003, Paul Eggert wrote:

Yes, this fix in current cvs removes this problem. Thanks.

> Martin MOKREJ© <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > ar cru libbison.a argmatch.o basename.o dirname.o get-errno.o getopt.o 
> > getopt1.o hash.o mbswidth.o quote.o quotearg.o subpipe.o xmalloc.o 
> > xstrdup.o xstrndup.o abitset.o bitset.o ebitset.o bitsetv.o bitset_stats.o 
> > lbitset.o bitsetv-print.o timevar.o error.o error.o memrchr.o stpcpy.o 
> > strnlen.o obstack.o malloc.o realloc.o
> > ar: Warning: ignoring second definition of error defined in archive
> > ar: Warning: ignoring second definition of error_at_line defined in archive
>
> Thanks for reporting this problem.  It arises because Bison's
> configure.ac invokes AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE twice; once directly, and
> once via gl_ERROR.  If you invoke AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE twice,
> "configure" attempts to put error.o in the archive twice, and this is
> a mistake on your platform.  Perhaps this is a bug in
> AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE?
>
> Anyway, I fixed the Bison problem by installing the following patch.
> Bison never invokes error_at_line directly, only via error.c, so this
> fix is the right thing to do even if AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE is buggy.
>
>
> 2003-04-26  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
>
>       * configure.ac (AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE): Remove, since gl_ERROR
>       invokes it.  We shouldn't invoke it twice because it will attempt
>       to put error.o in the archive twice.  This fixes a glitch reported
>       by Martin Mokrejs in
>       <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2003-04/msg00041.html>.
>
> --- configure.ac.~1.34.~      Wed Mar 12 15:08:06 2003
> +++ configure.ac      Sat Apr 26 22:18:22 2003
> @@ -101,7 +101,6 @@ AC_CHECK_DECLS([free, getenv, getopt,
>                  stpcpy, strchr, strspn, strnlen,
>                  malloc, memchr, memrchr])
>  AC_REPLACE_FUNCS(strchr strrchr strspn)
> -AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE
>  AM_WITH_DMALLOC
>  BISON_PREREQ_SUBPIPE
>  BISON_PREREQ_TIMEVAR
>

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