Re: Difficulty trying to build distribution from CVS sources

[Joel E. Denny]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Juan Manuel Guerrero wrote:

> At a first glance all steps appeared to work except for the one to build
> the dist target.  That target produces the following output:
> 
>   make: build-aux/git-version-gen: Kommando nicht gefunden   (command not 
> found)
>   INFO: rerunning autoconf for new version string: 
>   cat: .prev-version: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden  (file or 
> directory not found)
>   /bin/sh ./config.status --recheck
>   running CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/sh /bin/sh ./configure   --no-create 
> --no-recursion
> [snip]
>   make: build-aux/git-version-gen: Kommando nicht gefunden
>   INFO: rerunning autoconf for new version string: 
>   cat: .prev-version: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
>   /bin/sh ./config.status --recheck
>   running CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/sh /bin/sh ./configure   --no-create 
> --no-recursion
> [snip]
> 
> As can be seen it is a infinite loop.  After inspecting bison/build-aux/ I 
> have
> seen that there is no git-version-gen

Juan, sorry for the very slow response.  I see the same infinite loop you 
do.

Paul, the problem goes away when I check out Bison from 2007-09-21 right 
before your changes to GNUmakefile but not after.  Could you look into 
this?  Thanks.