Re: Bison 3.4.1 released [stable]

[Dennis Clarke]

On 5/25/19 2:38 AM, Akim Demaille wrote:
> Hi Dennis,
>
> > Le 24 mai 2019 à 08:53, Dennis Clarke <address@hidden> a écrit :
> >
> > On 5/22/19 3:34 PM, Akim Demaille wrote:
> > > The Bison team is sad to announce the crash of Bison 3.4.
> > > May its cores rest in peace.
> > > Rejoice!  Bison 3.4 is born again!  And he shall be called Bison 3.4.1.
> >
> > Builds fine on ye ol Solaris 10 sparc boxen and fails every test :
>
> Well, not "every", just the ones in examples/.  But because they failed, the 
> main test suite was skipped.  You can try with make check-local instead of make check.

yeah .. that fails too :

corv $ PATH=`pwd`/src:$PATH /usr/local/bin/gmake check-local 2>&1 | tee 
../bison-3.4.1_SunOS5.10_sparc64vii+.001.check-local.log
/usr/local/bin/gmake  all-recursive
gmake[1]: Entering directory 
'/usr/local/build/bison-3.4.1_SunOS5.10_sparc64vii+.001'
Making all in po
gmake[2]: Entering directory 
'/usr/local/build/bison-3.4.1_SunOS5.10_sparc64vii+.001/po'
gmake[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
gmake[2]: Leaving directory 
'/usr/local/build/bison-3.4.1_SunOS5.10_sparc64vii+.001/po'
Making all in runtime-po
gmake[2]: Entering directory 
'/usr/local/build/bison-3.4.1_SunOS5.10_sparc64vii+.001/runtime-po'
gmake[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
gmake[2]: Leaving directory 
'/usr/local/build/bison-3.4.1_SunOS5.10_sparc64vii+.001/runtime-po'
Making all in gnulib-po
gmake[2]: Entering directory 
'/usr/local/build/bison-3.4.1_SunOS5.10_sparc64vii+.001/gnulib-po'
gmake[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
gmake[2]: Leaving directory 
'/usr/local/build/bison-3.4.1_SunOS5.10_sparc64vii+.001/gnulib-po'
Making all in .
gmake[2]: Entering directory 
'/usr/local/build/bison-3.4.1_SunOS5.10_sparc64vii+.001'
LC_ALL=C tests/bison --version >doc/bison.help.tmp
LC_ALL=C tests/bison --help | \
  sed -e 's,^Usage: .*/bison \[OPTION\],Usage: bison [OPTION],g' \
      -e '/translation bugs/d'  >>doc/bison.help.tmp
./build-aux/move-if-change doc/bison.help.tmp doc/bison.help
gmake[2]: Leaving directory 
'/usr/local/build/bison-3.4.1_SunOS5.10_sparc64vii+.001'
gmake[1]: Leaving directory 
'/usr/local/build/bison-3.4.1_SunOS5.10_sparc64vii+.001'
./tests/testsuite -C tests
./tests/testsuite: syntax error at line 53383: `(' unexpected
gmake: *** [Makefile:8439: check-local] Error 2
corv $


> > FAIL: examples/c++/variant-11
> > =============================
> >
> > ./examples/test: syntax error at line 21: `me=$' unexpected
> > FAIL examples/c++/variant-11.test (exit status: 2)
> >
> > corv $
> >
> > Some sort of weird me=$ thing there.
>
> This is because I used $(...) in these tests, which exists only in not too 
> ancient shells.
>
> Replacing all the $(...) by `...` in examples/test should address the issue.

Nope. There are no three dots in that file.

Would be nice if an old XPG4 POSIX type shell would suffice but I know
 that is crazy these days.

Dennis