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Re: make distclean breaks "later "configure && makes"", i.e., removes a
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: make distclean breaks "later "configure && makes"", i.e., removes a file in distro that a build needs (cannot process parse.y) |
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Wed, 14 Feb 2018 08:29:15 -0500 |
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NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) |
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 01:03:05PM +0100, Michael Felt wrote:
> If after a successful build, I run "make distclean" - "./configure && make"
> no longer works.
> configure: WARNING: bison not available; needed to process parse.y
> + /usr/bin/make > .buildaix/make.out
> yacc: not found
You need to install the bison package. The tarballs of bash source
include an already-processed yacc file, but "make distclean" removes
that, and you need bison (or yacc, but bison is preferred) to recreate
it.