------- Comment #3 from rob1weld at aol dot com 2009-01-10 23:59 ------- (In reply to comment #1) > Is this still true in newer GCC releases? Also this was removed in 4.3 and > above. Yes, on trunk. Searching for dupe before starting a new Bug Report, came here.
We might close this Bug with a comment on the Prerequisites page that you _might_ need bison in the event that you (or a Makefile, broken or otherwise) modify a `.y' file. This webpage does not mention the program bison: Prerequisites for GCC http://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html # prev-gcc/xgcc -v Using built-in specs. Target: i386-pc-solaris2.11 Configured with: ../gcc_trunk/configure --enable-languages=ada,c,c++,fortran,java,objc,obj-c++ --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-decimal-float --with-long-double-128 --enable-nls --with-included-gettext --enable-gather-detailed-mem-stats --with-stabs --enable-debug -enable-largefile --enable-symvers --without-system-zlib --enable-gtk-cairo --enable-qt-peer --enable-xmlj --enable-gconf-peer --enable-gjdoc --enable-java-awt=gtk,xlib,qt,x --enable-gc-debug --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-libgcj-debug --enable-objc-gc --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-stage1-checking --enable-checking=release --without-system-libunwind --with-gnu-as --with-as=/usr/local/bin/as --with-gnu-ld --with-ld=/usr/local/bin/ld Thread model: posix gcc version 4.4.0 20090109 (experimental) (GCC) # gmake ... gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/src/gcc_build/libiberty' gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/share/src/gcc_build/intl' rm -f stamp-h1 /bin/sh ./config.status config.h config.status: creating config.h config.status: config.h is unchanged test -f config.h || (rm -f stamp-h1 && gmake stamp-h1) cp ../../gcc_trunk/intl/libgnuintl.h libintl.h /usr/share/src/gcc_build/./prev-gcc/xgcc ... ... /usr/share/src/gcc_build/./prev-gcc/xgcc -B/usr/share/src/gcc_build/./prev-gcc/ -B/usr/local/i386-pc-solaris2.11/bin/ -c -fexceptions -g -O2 -fprofile-use -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../gcc_trunk/intl ../../gcc_trunk/intl/ngettext.c ../../gcc_trunk/intl/ngettext.c: In function ‘libintl_ngettext’: ../../gcc_trunk/intl/ngettext.c:63: note: file /usr/share/src/gcc_build/intl/ngettext.gcda not found, execution counts estimated bison -y --name-prefix=__gettext --output plural.c ../../gcc_trunk/intl/plural.y rm -f plural.h /usr/share/src/gcc_build/./prev-gcc/xgcc -B/usr/share/src/gcc_build/./prev-gcc/ -B/usr/local/i386-pc-solaris2.11/bin/ -c -fexceptions -g -O2 -fprofile-use -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../gcc_trunk/intl plural.c ... I did not modify a `.y' file or play with this part of the code. The reason that I require bison is either: 1. I 'hit it' with my configure option combination and found an untried path. 2. Typing "make distclean" removed a file (I did not see that happen). 3. Something is broken and bison was not really needed. 4. The "Prerequisites for GCC" is incorrect, we do need bison. Rob -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35211