getting bison

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2 total messages Started by David C Lawrence Mon, 08 May 1989 01:58

#1593

Author: David C Lawrence
Date: Mon, 08 May 1989 01:58

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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

Re: getting bison

#1596

Author: Bob Sutterfield
Date: Tue, 09 May 1989 13:30

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In article <TALE.89May7215807@life.pawl.rpi.edu> tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes:

   Date: 8 May 89 01:58:07 GMT

   tut is pretty current with prep ... [but] ... the apparently older
   bison from tut?

Sheesh, Dave, give me a chance - I've got other things to do on the
weekends :-)

prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/bison-1.01.tar.Z is dated May 8 09:44 EDT, and
I picked it up here (just after seeing your note, which was the first
I had heard about the new version) at 15:27 EDT, not quite six hours
later.  I'd say that's "pretty current."

Judging from the timestamp on your article, you apparently picked up
an even earlier file on prep.  The one that's dated May 8 09:44
(223,815 bytes) seems to be healthy.  Please try again - you'll
probably have better luck with this one, whether you get it from
tut.cis.ohio-state.edu or from prep.ai.mit.edu or wherever you may
find it.

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