On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 12:24:48AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > Keith Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When I build bison-2.2 from source (on Solaris 9), the gzip help > > message shows up several times in the output log. > > Thanks for the bug report, but we need to look into this in a little > more detail before patching Bison, as I don't observe this behavior > when I build Bison 2.2 from source on Solaris 9 (sparc). I include > the output at the end of this message. > > > The problem seems to be in the file "Makefile.maint": > > That file is meant only for maintainers; it shouldn't be used if > all you're doing is building and installing. Maintainers are > expected to have recent-enough editions of the build tools, and > gzip 1.2.4 is not recent enough. > > But I'm puzzled that you'd be running 1.2.4 on Solaris 9. On Solaris > 9, /usr/bin/gzip --version outputs "gzip 1.3.3-patch.1". Perhaps you > have an older version of gzip that you built yourself? If so, please > try getting rid of it. [snip]
I also saw your later message, so some of this may be redundant. I don't know what "Makefile.maint" is for, but it is being invoked. All I'm doing is "./configure --prefix=...; make; make install". Yes, /usr/bin/gzip is gzip 1.3.3-patch.1, and yes, I have my own build of gzip 1.2.4 (it's actually 1.2.4a). I'm a bit confused about that. 1.2.4a is the most recent version of gzip on ftp.gnu.org, and it's over 7 years old. alpha.gnu.org has 1.3.4 and 1.3.5. Do you know why the "official" release is so old? (Probably I should take this up with the gzip maintainers.) -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst> San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst> We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.
