bison 3.3.2 fails to build or run testsuite

[Dennis Clarke]

Given that the well loved and much used bison has a brand new fresh
release I had to give it a try on a very strict and not very well loved
environment.  :-)   I need it to build recent flex and recent flex needs
bison and maybe bison needs flex but I managed to get this going.

This is ye old Solaris 10 sparc server with Oracle Studio C99 compiler
from the Oracle Studio 12.6 release. Very very strict and very very
standards compliant and the compile goes smoothly.

I am using a mixture of GNU tools ( recently built and tested ) as well
as the in place vendor UNIX Solaris tools :

AR=/usr/ccs/bin/ar
AS=/usr/ccs/bin/as
AWK=/usr/local/bin/gawk
CC=/opt/developerstudio12.6/bin/c99
CFLAGS=-m64 -xarch=sparc -Xc -g -mc -xs -errfmt=error -erroff=%none 
-errshort=full -errtags=yes -errwarn=%none -ftrap=%none -xbuiltin=%none 
-xildoff -xlibmieee -xstrconst -xcode=pic32 -xmemalign=8s -xnolibmil 
-xunroll=1 -xregs=no%appl -xdebugformat=dwarf -Qy -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE 
-D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -D_TS_ERRNO
CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash
CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS 
-D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_TS_ERRNO
CXX=/opt/developerstudio12.6/bin/CC
CXXFLAGS=-m64 -xarch=sparc -dalign -erroff=%none -errtags=yes 
-ftrap=%none -g -xcode=pic32 -m64 -mc -xunroll=1 -xbuiltin=%none 
-xdepend=no -xnolibmopt -xlinkopt=0 -xnolibmil -xregs=no%appl -xs
EDITOR=/usr/xpg6/bin/vi
GREP=/usr/local/bin/grep
LANG=C
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_CTYPE=C
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_MONETARY=C
LC_NUMERIC=C
LC_TIME=C
LD=/usr/ccs/bin/sparcv9/ld
LDFLAGS=-R/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib
LD_OPTIONS=-64 -Qy -R/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib
LD_RUN_PATH=/usr/local/lib
LIBTOOL=/usr/local/bin/libtool
M4=/usr/local/bin/m4
MAKE=/usr/local/bin/gmake
NM=/usr/ccs/bin/sparcv9/nm -p
PAGER=/usr/xpg4/bin/more
PERL=/usr/local/bin/perl
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
POSIXLY_CORRECT=1
SED=/usr/local/bin/sed
YACC=/usr/ccs/bin/yacc

Note the yacc there and the POSIXLY_CORRECT=1.

Maybe I need to specify a C++ standard but the configure went very
 smooth :

c$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --disable-silent-rules \
> --enable-dependency-tracking \
> --enable-threads=posix --without-gnu-ld \
> --without-libpth-prefix \
> --with-libiconv-prefix=/usr/local \
> --with-libintl-prefix=/usr/local
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config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing po-directories commands
config.status: creating runtime-po/POTFILES
config.status: creating runtime-po/Makefile
config.status: creating po/POTFILES
config.status: creating po/Makefile
config.status: executing tests/atconfig commands
c$

So bison does look for flex but seems happy with lex with the warning:

configure: WARNING: bypassing lex because flex is required

However I need bison to build flex and flex needs bison and here we are.
Compile goes smoothly :

c$
c$ ldd ./src/bison
        libm.so.2 =>     /lib/64/libm.so.2
        libintl.so.8 =>  /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.8
        libiconv.so.2 =>         /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.2
        libc.so.1 =>     /lib/64/libc.so.1
        librt.so.1 =>    /lib/64/librt.so.1
        libaio.so.1 =>   /lib/64/libaio.so.1
        libmd.so.1 =>    /lib/64/libmd.so.1
        /lib/sparcv9/../libm/sparcv9/libm_hwcap1.so.2
        /platform/SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise/lib/sparcv9/libc_psr.so.1
c$ file ./src/bison
./src/bison: ELF 64-bit MSB executable SPARCV9 Version 1, dynamically 
linked, not stripped
c$ ./src/bison --version
bison (GNU Bison) 3.3.2
Written by Robert Corbett and Richard Stallman.

Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
c$

Great .. however trying to "gmake check" results in a bit of noise and
then a full nasty stop :

.
.
.
/bin/bash ./build-aux/ylwrap `test -f 'examples/c++/variant.yy' || echo 
'./'`examples/c++/variant.yy y.tab.c examples/c++/variant.cc y.tab.h 
`echo examples/c++/variant.cc | sed -e s/cc$/hh/ -e s/cpp$/hpp/ -e 
s/cxx$/hxx/ -e s/c++$/h++/ -e s/c$/h/` y.output 
examples/c++/variant.output -- ./tests/bison -o y.tab.c -d -v -Werror 
-Wall -Wno-yacc --report=all
updating examples/c++/variant.output
updating examples/c++/variant.hh
source='examples/c++/variant.cc' object='examples/c++/variant-variant.o' 
libtool=no \
DEPDIR=.deps depmode=dashXmstdout /bin/bash ./build-aux/depcomp \
/opt/developerstudio12.6/bin/CC -DEXEEXT=\"\"   -I. -I/usr/local/include 
-D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_TS_ERRNO 
-D_REENTRANT    -m64 -xarch=sparc -dalign -erroff=%none -errtags=yes 
-ftrap=%none -g -xcode=pic32 -m64 -mc -xunroll=1 -xbuiltin=%none 
-xdepend=no -xnolibmopt -xlinkopt=0 -xnolibmil -xregs=no%appl -xs -c -o 
examples/c++/variant-variant.o `test -f 'examples/c++/variant.cc' || 
echo './'`examples/c++/variant.cc
"/opt/developerstudio12.6/lib/compilers/include/CC/Cstd/vector.cc", line 
127: Error: Cannot assign const yy::parser::stack_symbol_type to 
yy::parser::stack_symbol_type without 
"yy::parser::stack_symbol_type::operator=(const 
yy::parser::stack_symbol_type&)";.
"/opt/developerstudio12.6/lib/compilers/include/CC/Cstd/vector", line 
475:     Where, temwhileinst: While instantiating 
"std::vector<yy::parser::stack_symbol_type>::__insert_aux(yy::parser::stack_symbol_type*, 
const yy::parser::stack_symbol_type&)".
"/opt/developerstudio12.6/lib/compilers/include/CC/Cstd/vector", line 
475:     Where, teminstfrom: Instantiated from 
std::vector<yy::parser::stack_symbol_type>::push_back(const 
yy::parser::stack_symbol_type&).
"examples/c++/variant.hh", line 1220:     Where, teminstfrom: 
Instantiated from yy::parser::stack<yy::parser::stack_symbol_type, 
std::vector<yy::parser::stack_symbol_type>>::push(yy::parser::stack_symbol_type&).
"examples/c++/variant.cc", line 384:     Where, teminstend: Instantiated 
from non-template code.
1 Error(s) detected.
gmake[3]: *** [Makefile:4699: examples/c++/variant-variant.o] Error 2
gmake[3]: Leaving directory 
'/usr/local/build/bison-3.3.2_SunOS5.10_sparc64vii+.001'
gmake[2]: *** [Makefile:5825: check-am] Error 2
gmake[2]: Leaving directory 
'/usr/local/build/bison-3.3.2_SunOS5.10_sparc64vii+.001'
gmake[1]: *** [Makefile:5370: check-recursive] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory 
'/usr/local/build/bison-3.3.2_SunOS5.10_sparc64vii+.001'
gmake: *** [Makefile:5828: check] Error 2

That looks messy.

Any suggestions on getting the tests to run ?


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