Re: Need assistance

[Akim Demaille]

| Here is the version of M4 on the system along with all the other GNU packages
| :
| bison-1.75            libpcap-0.7.1         snort-1.9.0.tar
| bison-1.75.tar        libpcap-0.7.1.tar     tcpdump-3.7.1.tar.gz
| flex-2.5.4            libpcap.tar           texinfo-4.2
| flex-2.5.4a.tar       m4-1.4                texinfo-4.2.tar
| iozone                m4-1.4.tar
| libpcap-0.4           snort-1.9.0
| 
| rtp-rds-01d:root
| /home/dukec/sniff >ls -l /usr/local/bin/m4
| -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     system    491044 Nov 08 10:18 /usr/local/bin/m4
| 
| rtp-rds-01d:root
| /home/dukec/sniff >ls -l m4-1.4/src/m4
| -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     system    491044 Nov 08 10:18 m4-1.4/src/m4


Try this:

/tmp % cat foo.y
%%
exp: 'a';
/tmp % bison --trace=tools foo.y
running: /usr/bin/m4 -I /usr/local/share/bison m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 - 
/usr/local/share/bison/yacc.c

and see what bison ran.