Re: compiling bison-3.0 on AIX 5.3

[Akim Demaille]

Hi Ken, Hi Michael,

Le 21 sept. 2013 à 06:03, Ken Moffat <address@hidden> a écrit :

> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:36:38AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
>> Killed it after more than 200 minutes CPU - memory use hadn't
>> changed, it was still using as much CPU as it could get, nothing
>> more in the output.
>> 
> Unfortunately, the new build didn't boot - looks as if ext4 isn't
> supported for '/' by the yaboot bootloader - so I started to back it
> up.  Discovered that testsuite.dir/at-groups/24-stderr had grown to
> 2.4G.  The first 19 lines are text, the twentieth line is "extremely
> long" (perhaps the rest of the file) and (eventually) renders as
> inverse question-marks (i.e. invalid UTF-8) when I try to browse
> it in vim.  I've copied the first 1K with 'dd', I'll attach that.

This bug _might_ have been fixed!  I suspect that

commit 4c4191cec2b30632a31993a6e46fb241ab9c3434
Author: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
Date:   Sat Sep 28 00:00:34 2013 +0200

    location: fix EOF check
    
    * location.c (location_caret): Use int, not char, for values from
    getc.

explains the problem you are facing.  Could you please give
a try to this tarball?

  http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/download/bison-3.0.20-e4678.tar.gz

or

  http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/download/bison-3.0.20-e4678.tar.xz

Thanks a lot!