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RE: Getting involved in Bison


From: Morales Cayuela, Victor (NSB - CN/Hangzhou)
Subject: RE: Getting involved in Bison
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 02:41:38 +0000

Hello!

Yesterday I finally compiled the project. When do I start? What can I do? :)

Victor

-----Original Message-----
From: Akim Demaille <address@hidden> 
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2019 2:59 PM
To: Morales Cayuela, Victor (NSB - CN/Hangzhou) <address@hidden>
Cc: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>; Bison Bugs <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Getting involved in Bison

Hi Victor,

> Le 21 oct. 2019 à 04:08, Morales Cayuela, Victor (NSB - CN/Hangzhou) 
> <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> Morning!
> 
> This weekend I tried to download & compile the project but didn't work...
> I cloned your repo in github and then ran "git submodule update --init", 
> which basically only downloaded autoconf (I was expecting more tools, like 
> automake).

Nope, it does not download Autoconf, it only fetches a part of Autoconf which 
we use (some carefully crafted M4 macro—Autoconf is written in M4).

You really need to set up your developper environment by hand.  Be sure to read 
README-hacking.

> I tried running ./bootstrap but it said that there were no "autoconf" nor 
> "automake" tools available. I decided to directly install them with brew and 
> then I ran again bootstrap, which complained again saying there was not 
> "wget". After installing wget, bootstrap asked again about a tool called 
> "autopoint", which is not available in brew and for which I didn't find a 
> reliable repository online.

It's part of Gettext.  See README-hacking :)

> In sum, this project has a lot of dependencies...

Yes.  In order to free *users* from these dependencies.

> I will try again today when I go back home. Perhaps I will virtualize a 
> popular Linux distro, they usually have more tools than Macs.

I develop on top of MacPorts, and need nothing else.

I'll install these two commits, be sure to update first next time you try.

Cheers!


commit 8b87da8d12a0f073d4b8667ae1562ec7a438ce35
Author: Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon Oct 21 08:38:03 2019 +0200

    bootstrap: relieve developpers from Gettext version mismatch issues
    
    * .travis.yml (compile): Move the workaround from here...
    * bootstrap.conf (bootstrap_epilogue): to there.

diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 5d00e89c..674591cb 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -50,9 +50,6 @@ jobs:
         - git submodule update --init --recursive
 
         - ./bootstrap
-        # gnulib-po/Makefile.in.in is about Gettext 0.20, which is not 
available in bionic.  So it will break here.  Override it.  Don't use 
autopoint, which sends some other files in the past.
-        - cp po/Makefile.in.in gnulib-po
-
         - ./configure --enable-gcc-warnings || { cat config.log && false; }
         - make -j2
         - make -j2 dist
diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf index 22816271..ad8d12c8 100644
--- a/bootstrap.conf
+++ b/bootstrap.conf
@@ -90,6 +90,13 @@ bootstrap_epilogue()
   touch src/parse-gram.[ch]
 
   perl -pi -e "s/\@PACKAGE\@/$package/g" README-release
+
+  # Bison currently uses Gettext 0.19, but the gnulib-po module  # 
+ imports files from more recent versions of Gettext that are not  # yet 
+ available widely enough (e.g., not in bionic, used by the CI).
+  # Work around this.  Don't use autopoint, which sends some other  # 
+ files in the past.
+  cp po/Makefile.in.in gnulib-po
 }
 
 # Keep our bootstrap script in sync with gnulib's.  If we ever need to





commit c6e4b260e0de265e1888822682054c32498541d8
Author: Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon Oct 21 08:49:11 2019 +0200

    doc: update README
    
    * README: Be clearer that README-hacking _must_ be read.
    Convert to Markdown.

diff --git a/README b/README
index a54231d7..0d4c257d 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 This package contains the GNU Bison parser generator.
 
-* Installation
-** Build from git
+# Installation
+## Build from git
 Here are basic installation instructions for a repository checkout:
 
     $ git submodules update --init
@@ -9,17 +9,17 @@ Here are basic installation instructions for a repository 
checkout:
 
 then proceed with the usual 'configure && make' steps.
 
-README-hacking contains more information about building and modifying the 
-software.
+Be sure to read README-hacking, which contains all the needed 
+information about building, modifying and checking Bison.
 
-** Build for tarball
+## Build from tarball
 See the file INSTALL for generic compilation and installation instructions.
 
 Bison requires GNU m4 1.4.6 or later.  See:
 
       https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.6.tar.gz
 
-** Relocatability
+## Relocatability
 If you pass '--enable-relocatable' to 'configure', Bison is relocatable.
 
 A relocatable program can be moved or copied to a different location on the @@ 
-29,7 +29,7 @@ invoke them through the symlink.
 
 See "Enabling Relocatability" in the documentation.
 
-** Internationalization
+## Internationalization
 Bison supports two catalogs: one for Bison itself (i.e., for the  
maintainer-side parser generation), and one for the generated parsers (i.e.,  
for the user-side parser execution).  The requirements between both differ:
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ generated parsers could have been localized.  See  
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2009-08/msg00006.html for more  
details.
 
-* Questions
+# Questions
 See the section FAQ in the documentation (doc/bison.info) for frequently  
asked questions.  The documentation is also available in PDF and HTML,  
provided you have a recent version of Texinfo installed: run "make pdf" or @@ 
-48,19 +48,19 @@ provided you have a recent version of Texinfo installed: run 
"make pdf" or  If you have questions about using Bison and the documentation 
does not  answer them, please send mail to <address@hidden>.
 
-* Bug reports
+# Bug reports
 Please send bug reports to <address@hidden>.  Be sure to include the  version 
number from 'bison --version', and a complete, self-contained test  case in 
each bug report.
 
-* Copyright statements
+# Copyright statements
 For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package, note  
that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.
 
------
+<!--
 
 Local Variables:
-mode: outline
+mode: markdown
 fill-column: 76
 ispell-dictionary: "american"
 End:
@@ -83,5 +83,7 @@ GNU General Public License for more details.
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License  along with 
this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
-# LocalWords:  parsers ngettext Texinfo pdf html YYYY ZZZZ ispell american -# 
LocalWords:  MERCHANTABILITY
+LocalWords:  parsers ngettext Texinfo pdf html YYYY ZZZZ ispell 
+american
+LocalWords:  MERCHANTABILITY
+
+-->
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 120000
index 00000000..100b9382
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+README
\ No newline at end of file


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