I ran into an issue building coreutils with the "bison++" installed, which is provided by my GNU/Linux distribution. Since this is an issue which is not detected by the bootstrap or configure scripts, I noted the incompatibility for users of similar distributions. --- README-prereq | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README-prereq b/README-prereq index fdf89fecd..9313a2220 100644 --- a/README-prereq +++ b/README-prereq @@ -13,8 +13,11 @@ I.e., the tools checked for by the bootstrap script and include: - Tar <https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/> - Texinfo <https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/> -Note please try to install/build official packages for your system. -If these programs are not available use the following instructions +Note: please try to install/build official packages for your system. +Also, if using Debian or a derived GNU/Linux distribution, please +install the bison package, since the suggested bison++ package is +incompatible with building coreutils. If official packages are not +available for your system, use the following instructions to build them and install the results into a directory that you will then use when building this package. -- 2.17.1
