Re: bison 2.2 on Cygwin

[Paul Eggert]

"Oleg Smolsky" <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm trying to build CVS/HEAD of bison on cygwin/xp and get a gzip
> error while running the bootstrap script. The output is below. I have
> tried running it with and without the "--skip-po" option. Is there any
> way to manually retry what the script is doing?

I'm afraid you'll have to look into what autoreconf is doing.  Bison's
bootstrap routine does not invoke gzip or tar itself.  I am suspicious
of that 'autoreconf-2.5x' message; we assume Autoconf 2.59.

> Also, generally, would it be a big deal to just import a known working
> version of gnulib and all of the localizations in to bison's cvs? I
> bet you don't need the latest bleeding-edge version,

Actually, we often do.  We used to do it the way you suggest, and it
was more of a maintenance hassle for us.