Re[2]: bison 2.2 on Cygwin

[Oleg Smolsky]

Hello Paul,

Paul Eggert wrote on 16/01/2006 at 1:44 p.m.:
>> 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.
So, how would one debug this issue?

> I am suspicious of that 'autoreconf-2.5x' message; we assume
> Autoconf 2.59.
On my system:
$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59
Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.


Best regards,
Oleg.