Re: Building bison 2.4.1 in Solaris 8

[Albert Chin]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:45:53PM +0800, address@hidden wrote:
> It seems like there is a bug in building bison 2.4.1 in Solaris 8. My
> bison config keeps on failing with the error below:
> 
> Config keeps on failing with the error below:
> 
> config.status: creating etc/bench.pl
> 
> nawk: input record `      print $out "1+...' too long
> 
>  input record number 122
> 
>  source line number 397
> 
> config.status: error: could not create etc/bench.pl
> 
> make: Fatal error: No arguments to build
> 
> Not sure if someone else had encountered this. But in case, could
> someone explain why the error was encountered and how to resolve it
> perhaps?

If you have GNU awk, gawk, make sure it's first in $PATH and
re-configure/rebuild.

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albert chin (address@hidden)