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From: jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: need help on building g++
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Date: 6 Nov 90 00:27:04 GMT
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In article <1990Nov5.213220.13315@eng.ufl.edu>, tsao@scylla.iec.ufl.edu (Tsao) writes:
|>         I am trying to build GNU g++ on a Sun 4/370, but I got the following
|> error message:
|>         make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target `cplus-tab.h'

People won't be able to help you in most cases if you don't specify the
version.  Evidently you weren't attempting to build from an official
version of g++, but were trying to make one of the beta-test versions
from labrea.stanford.edu.  I recommend that you stick to the official
versions unless you've had some experience with installing g++; the
beta versions haven't been cleaned up.  (That's why people do beta
versions, to allow others to help shake out bugs).

Get version 1.37.1 of g++ from one of the many sites that have it
(prep.ai.mit.edu, for example).

There's in error in the makefile for the labrea versions -- you need
to give bison the '-d' flag; it will then build cplus-tab.h.


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