Re: Problems building bison-3.0

[Akim Demaille]

Le 26 juil. 2013 à 14:52, Colin Daley <address@hidden> a écrit :

> Hello All,

Hi Colin,

> I attempted to build bison-3.0 on Windows 8 Pro with MinGW/MSYS. I
> was pleasantly surprised to see that it worked, but there were two small
> problems:

Thanks for reporting!

> 1) m4
> ./configure detects m4 as /bin/m4.exe, which is not wrong, in the sense
> that this is the MSYS path to m4. However, this ends up in config.h as
> #define M4 "/bin/m4.exe". The Windows path, i.e.
> `c:/mingw/msys/1.0/bin/m4.exe' is what should be there. Fortunately,
> this is easily solved by
> M4=c:/mingw/msys/1.0/bin/m4.exe ./configure …

Do you have a suggestion on how this should be addressed in
an elegant way?

> Still, it would be good if the configure script could do the right thing.
> 
> 2) Documentation
> 
> The directory `figs' is missing, so:
>  MAKEINFO doc/bison.info
> ./doc/bison.texi:9437: warning: @image file `figs/example-shift.txt' (for 
> text)
> unreadable: No such file or directory.
> ./doc/bison.texi:9459: warning: @image file `figs/example-reduce.txt' (for 
> text)
> unreadable: No such file or directory.
> 
> Also. `make pdf' gives:
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `doc/figs/example.pdf', needed by 
> `doc/bison
> .pdf'.  Stop.

Nope, it is not missing, it is in doc/.  But you are right that
the .txt files are missing :(  I don't know why you have problems
with the pdf files though.  Could you explore this?