After opening the 4.2.0 tar balls and applying the 4.2.0-4.2.1 patch, I find
I'm getting a compiling error when bison tries to process the file
"./lib/Xft/xftgram.y".  The CVS/RCS ID for the file is:

  $XFree86: xc/lib/Xft/xftgram.y,v 1.5 2001/05/16 10:32:54 keithp Exp $

And the error I get is this:
  bison -y -d xftgram.y
  xftgram.y:168.8: parse error, unexpected ":", expecting ";" or "|"
  xftgram.y:169.3-6: $$ of `matrix' has no declared type
  make[3]: *** [xftgram.c] Error 1

I checked the other "*.y" files in the distro, and there are other instances
of
what appears to be misplaced/missing semicolons in the grammar rules
sections.

>From the "./xc" directory, I looked for all (six or seven) "*.y" files and
tried
each with BISON version 1.75.

I modified them all by hand (unwittingly adding semicolons where they made
syntactical sense to me to put them), and the compilation now seems to be
progressing smoothly as I write this.  The whole exercise took only a few
minutes.

As I'm new to X-Windows, particularly to XFree86 and its source code, could
someone verify this?

Thanks,
- Jamie



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