RE: Gnats Installation error

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 14:33 27.11.2001 -0500, Kevin Olds wrote:
> Yngve,
>
>   Thanks for the info. I've downloaded GNATS 4.0 from Savannah, and am now
> trying to install that. I've run into a problem with yacc. The Makefile
> errors out on the following:
>
> $(YACC) -o getdate.c $(srcdir)/getdate.y
>
> I get an error saying that -o is an illegal option for yacc. I'm trying to
> build GNATS on an Ultra 5 running Solaris 2.8.

I am not an expert on the build system, but it seems clear that configure 
has messed up so that a bison-only option is being passed to yacc. If you 
have bison on your system (I am fairly certain you have), you could try to 
hack the Makefile by substituting $(YACC) with 'bison'.

Would you mind going to http://bugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl and fill 
out a bug report? Login with password/username guest/guest and choose the 
database name 'gnats'.

Yngve Svendsen
GNATS 4 doc guy