Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rpi!rpi.edu!tale From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug Subject: getting bison Message-ID: Date: 8 May 89 01:58:07 GMT Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: tale@pawl.rpi.edu Distribution: gnu Lines: 24 Well, this has been an odd evening. I started to compile g++ tonight because someone on our system wanted it. So as I am configuring it I note that I don't have gcc yet and also that bison is wanted by g++. I ftp over to prep and get both. Turns out that bison-1.01.tar.Z won't uncompress because of corrupted input. Yes, I set binary. Yes, I tried again, making doubly sure I set binary. Oh well, figure I, making gcc should be pretty straightforward. Son of a gun, gcc wants to use bison too. tut is pretty current with prep, I remember, so I went to pub/gnu/bison on tut and got that tar file. GNU grepping through the sources for version showed me nothing about 1.01 (or any number) and the README mentions that the latest ChangeLog entry is how version control is dealt with, but there is no ChangeLog in that distribution. Can someone please tell me what is wrong with the prep bison and how much I should worry about the fact that I am building the latest gcc and g++ on top of the apparently older bison from tut? Dave -- tale@rpitsmts.bitnet, tale%mts@itsgw.rpi.edu, tale@pawl.rpi.edu