Re: [Bug-gnubg] gnubg-020610.tar.gz - bison problems are back

[Jim Segrave]

On Tue 11 Jun 2002 (12:11 -0400), Gary Wong wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 05:00:59PM +0200, Jim Segrave wrote:
> > Under FreeBSD 4.6 Release Candidate, the snapshot from 10 June 2002
> > does not build with bison 1.34a, but does with bison 1.30l
> 
> Thanks for the bug report.  I have checked in a patch to the repository
> which should show up in snapshots dated 020611 and later.
> 
> > (and the sed expression on line 5995 of configure is still looking for
> > a version number from bison surrounded by whitespace:
> > 
> >     ac_prog_version=`$INTLBISON --version 2>&1 | sed -n's/^.*GNU Bison .* 
> > \([0-9]*\.[0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p'`
> > 
> > Should be:
> > ac_prog_version=`$INTLBISON --version 2>&1 | sed -n's/^.*GNU 
> > Bison.*\([0-\9]*\.[0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p'`
> > 
> > (Fixing this does not fix the problem however)
> 
> That part of the configure script is actually gettext code.  It has no effect
> unless the gettext source is modified, so it is safe to ignore for gnubg
> purposes.  It has been fixed in gettext 0.11.2.

Ok - I didn't know that. I only noticed it when I started looking to
see why gnubg had become 'bison version sensitive'.

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