Re: mingw bison error when building gdb git source

[asmwarrior <asmwarrior@gmail.com>]

On 2011-6-4 20:50, asmwarrior wrote:
> I have a question on building gdb under Msys+mingw
>
> when I build gdb source from git (which I do a git clone from
> git://sourceware.org/git/gdb.git). I get an build error:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> make[2]: Entering directory `/f/build_gdb/gdb/gdbgit/build/sim'
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/f/build_gdb/gdb/gdbgit/build/sim'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/f/build_gdb/gdb/gdbgit/build/gdb'
> CONFIG_HEADERS=config.h:config.in \
> CONFIG_COMMANDS="default depdir" \
> CONFIG_FILES= \
> CONFIG_LINKS= \
> /bin/sh config.status
> config.status: creating config.h
> config.status: config.h is unchanged
> config.status: executing default commands
> config.status: executing depdir commands
> rm -f c-exp.c c-exp.c.tmp
> /bin/sh ../../gdb/gdb/../ylwrap ../../gdb/gdb/c-exp.y y.tab.c c-exp.c --
> bison -
> y && mv c-exp.c c-exp.c.tmp \
> || (rm -f c-exp.c; false)
> rm -f cp-name-parser.c cp-name-parser.c.tmp
> /bin/sh ../../gdb/gdb/../ylwrap ../../gdb/gdb/cp-name-parser.y y.tab.c
> cp-name-p
> arser.c -- bison -y && mv cp-name-parser.c cp-name-parser.c.tmp \
> || (rm -f cp-name-parser.c; false)
> rm -f objc-exp.c objc-exp.c.tmp
> /bin/sh ../../gdb/gdb/../ylwrap ../../gdb/gdb/objc-exp.y y.tab.c
> objc-exp.c -- b
> ison -y && mv objc-exp.c objc-exp.c.tmp \
> || (rm -f objc-exp.c; false)
> conflicts: 18 shift/reduce, 9 reduce/reduce
> E:\code\msys\MSYS-20110112\msys\bin\bison.exe: cannot open file
> `/usr/share/biso
> n/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4': No such file or directory
> E:\code\msys\MSYS-20110112\msys\bin\bison.exe: cannot open file
> `/usr/share/biso
> n/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4': No such file or directory
> conflicts: 5 shift/reduce
> E:\code\msys\MSYS-20110112\msys\bin\bison.exe: cannot open file
> `/usr/share/biso
> n/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4': No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [c-exp.c] Error 1
> make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[2]: *** [cp-name-parser.c] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [objc-exp.c] Error 1
> make[3]: Entering directory `/f/build_gdb/gdb/gdbgit/build/gdb'
> make[4]: Entering directory `/f/build_gdb/gdb/gdbgit/build/gdb/gnulib'
> make all-recursive
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The message shows that bison under Msys does not works quite well.
>
> But when I download the gdb snapshot from the ftp
> ftp://sourceware.org/pub/gdb/snapshots/
>
> I just unzip the snapshot, and use the same configure option, and the
> build stage works fine, and no such error.
>
> So, I just think that when building the snapshot, we do not need bison.
> In fact the file c-exp.c is built from c-exp.y.
> In the snapshot of gdb, c-exp.y already exists.
> But in the gdb git source, there are only c-exp.y, so bison is needed to
> build the associated c-exp.c.
>
>
> So, my question is:
> Can some bison exports help to solve this problem? it seems bison under
> Msys does not works quite well.
>
> Or is it possible save the c-exp.c in the gdb repository, so that we
> don't need bison to build it.
>
> thanks.
>
> asmwarrior
> ollydbg from code::blocks' forum
>
>
>
Oh, I found the problem myself. My installation of MSYS bison is broken.
Re-install an official bison solved this problem.

Sorry for the noise.

asmwarrior
ollydbg from code::blocks' forum