Re: compiling bison-3.0 on AIX 5.3

[Akim Demaille]

Hi Michael,

Le 21 oct. 2013 à 09:53, Michael Felt <address@hidden> a écrit :

> Finally had a moment. The packaging goes well, but the make check does not
> (probably do not have enough installed, e.g. flex).
> 
> Suggestions welcome.
> 
> address@hidden:[/data/prj/gnu/bison/bison-3.0.20]buildaix
> + CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/include CFLAGS=-I/opt/aixtools/include -O2
> -qlanglvl=extc99 ./configure \
>        --prefix=/opt \
>        --sysconfdir=/var/bison/etc \
>        --sharedstatedir=/var/bison/com \
>        --localstatedir=/var/bison \
>        --mandir=/usr/share/man  \
>> build/aix/configure.out
> configure: WARNING: bypassing lex because flex is required
> cmp: EOF on conftest.ok

nice message… I'll try to have a look at that.

>  LEX      examples/calc++/calc++-scanner.cc
>  CXX      examples/calc++/examples_calc___calc__-calc++-scanner.o
> xlC_r: 1501-228 (W) input file ./examples/calc++/calc++-scanner.cc not found

The package was designed with Flex required.  Paul relaxed
this constraint, but there are other adjustments to make
to get the package fully functional.

I'll try to address this, or will restore Flex as required.

Why is installing Flex a problem for you?

Thanks!