Re: bison-2.4.2 broken on FreeBSD

[Joel E. Denny]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Johan van Selst wrote:

> Thanks for the quick response.

Thank you.

> > Would you please check that the problem is fixed?  Either I can roll a 
> > test release tarball for you to try, or you can checkout branch-2.4.3 from 
> > our git repo at git://git.sv.gnu.org/bison.git and then bootstrap.  
> 
> I did this and compiled it on my FreeBSD machine. I can confirm that
> it indeed does the trick: this version works just fine for me.

Great.  In case there are other bug reports, I'll wait at least a few days 
before rolling a 2.4.3 release.  (Unfortunately, it might be longer if I 
can't find time.)

> P.S. The 'make check' step only works with GNU make however (this
> probably has been so for ages, but I don't generally run make check
> and the regular compilation works fine with BSD make).

Off the top of my head, I can't think of a reason for this.  What does the 
failure look like?