On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > I've been routinely building various gcc version with bison-2.3 with no > problems.
Thanks for doing that. It would be helpful if you would do the same for Bison test releases, such as 2.3a and 2.3b, before formal releases come out. > bison-2.4 breaks the build, the error messages are: > > " > /home/sergei/AFSWD/build/gcc-4.3.2/./prev-gcc/xgcc > -B/home/sergei/AFSWD/build/gcc-4.3.2/./prev-gcc/ > -B/home/sergei/AFSWD/install/gcc-4.3.2/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ -c -g -O2 > -fomit-frame-pointer -DIN_GCC -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes > -Wmissing-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -Wmissing-format-attribute > -pedantic -Wno-long-long -Wno-variadic-macros > -Wno-overlength-strings -Wno-error -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -Itreelang > -I/home/sergei/AFSWD/build/gcc-4.3.2.src/gcc > -I/home/sergei/AFSWD/build/gcc-4.3.2.src/gcc/treelang > -I/home/sergei/AFSWD/build/gcc-4.3.2.src/gcc/../include > -I/home/sergei/AFSWD/build/gcc-4.3.2.src/gcc/../libcpp/include > -I/home/sergei/AFSWD/install/gmp-4.2.2/include > -I/home/sergei/AFSWD/install/mpfr-2.3.2/include > -I/home/sergei/AFSWD/build/gcc-4.3.2.src/gcc/../libdecnumber > -I/home/sergei/AFSWD/build/gcc-4.3.2.src/gcc/../libdecnumber/bid > -I../libdecnumber > -I/home/sergei/AFSWD/install/autoconf-2.63/include > -I/home/sergei/AFSWD/install/autogen-5.8.7/include > -I/home/sergei/AFSWD/install/bash-3.0/include > -I/home/sergei/AFSWD/install/bison-2.4/include > -I/home/sergei/AFSWD/install/dejagnu-1.4.4/include > -I/home/sergei/AFSWD/install/expect-5.44.1/include > -I/home/sergei/AFSWD/install/flex-2.5.35/include > -I/home/sergei/AFSWD/install/gmp-4.2.2/include > -I/home/sergei/AFSWD/install/gperf-3.0.3/include > -I/home/sergei/AFSWD/install/guile-1.8.5/include > -I/home/sergei/AFSWD/install/libtool-1.5.26/include > -I/home/sergei/AFSWD/install/m4-1.4.12/include > -I/home/sergei/AFSWD/install/make-3.80/include > -I/home/sergei/AFSWD/install/mpfr-2.3.2/include > -I/home/sergei/AFSWD/install/ncurses-5.7/include > -I/home/sergei/AFSWD/install/readline-5.1/include > -I/home/sergei/AFSWD/install/tcl-8.4.19/include > -I/home/sergei/AFSWD/install/texinfo-4.13/include > -I/home/sergei/AFSWD/install/tk-8.4.19/include treelang/parse.c -o > treelang/parse.o > /home/sergei/AFSWD/build/gcc-4.3.2.src/gcc/treelang/parse.y: In function > ???yyparse???: > /home/sergei/AFSWD/build/gcc-4.3.2.src/gcc/treelang/parse.y:689: error: > expected ???;??? before ???}??? token > /home/sergei/AFSWD/build/gcc-4.3.2.src/gcc/treelang/parse.y:690: error: > expected ???;??? before ???}??? token > make[3]: *** [treelang/parse.o] Error 1 > make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/sergei/AFSWD/build/gcc-4.3.2/gcc' > make[2]: *** [all-stage2-gcc] Error 2 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/sergei/AFSWD/build/gcc-4.3.2' > make[1]: *** [stage2-bubble] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sergei/AFSWD/build/gcc-4.3.2' > make: *** [all] Error 2 > " > > - looks like 'bison' does not put the final ';'. I haven't seen this happen. From your report, I can't tell where the semicolon is missing. Please show us that part of the code. A small test grammar would be nice as well.