Re: What does 'broken pipe' mean in Bison 1.85?

[Tim Van Holder]

Barb Hawes wrote:
> Hi,
>   I've looked everywhere I can think of for an answer
> to this question.  Most people are asking how to get
> rid of it (install previous version), but I'd like to
> know what it means.
> Thanks.
> Barb Hawes
> SMSU Lab Administrator

Recent version of bison use m4 as a subprocess to do much
of the work.  Since a broken pipe means one end of a pipe
dies prematurely, my guess is that you either don't have
m4 installed, or that your m4 isn't GNU m4.  If that is
the case, Bison should really give a better error though.