Re: Building the CVS

[Akim Demaille]

| I have tried to build the cvs version of bison.
| Problems so far:
| 
| In lib/errors.c:56 this line is a forced error which gets called
| due to HAVE_DECL_SRERROR_R is not defined by the ./configure.
| Commented out the line and proceeded.

This must have been fixed recently.  Here, config.h does contain:

/* Define to 1 if you have the declaration of `strerror_r', and to 0 if you
   don't. */
#define HAVE_DECL_STRERROR_R 1


| In doc/bison.texinfo:4 missing file version.texi. Commented out
| line and proceeded.

Thanks, I'll cvs add it.

| make check: 
| 
| Test 9 Failed near calc.at:335
| 
| Later, the test actually dies with this one: 
| 
| ======================================
| ./debug-9.sh: Testing Calculator --raw
| ======================================

This is a known failure.  The feature is about to be removed actually.


| I am running Red Hat GNU/Linux 6.1 (Kernel 2.0). Do I need any
| special packages or is the CVS version just broken?

Say `broken' is too strong a word :)