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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2004-05-26 07:20:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2004-05-26 07:20:06 +0000 |
| commit | 2cef3017cdb3eb28a37814725d0539b87d9cdd79 (patch) | |
| tree | ccebdaff39497ddfd05ba6bcbacfa1629df33791 /README | |
| parent | b9c85d5cef6ecfd068a1010b4e130c83d1f802e5 (diff) | |
| download | bison-2cef3017cdb3eb28a37814725d0539b87d9cdd79.tar.gz | |
* README: Mention GNU m4 1.4 bugs and Akim's patched version.
* README-alpha: Don't tell people not to package this.
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| -rw-r--r-- | README | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -3,11 +3,12 @@ This directory contains the Bison parser generator. See the file INSTALL for generic compilation and installation instructions. See the file doc/FAQ for frequently asked questions. -Bison requires GNU m4 1.4 (or later, if a later version of GNU m4 -becomes available). The following m4 patches are recommended: +Bison requires GNU m4 1.4 or later. Vanilla GNU m4 1.4 has some +serious bugs, so we recommend using m4 1.4 as patched by the standard +GNU/Linux distributions. If you're building GNU m4 1.4 from scratch +we suggest using this version: -http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=92629 -http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=211477 +http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/download/m4-1.4.tar.gz Older versions of Sun Forte Developer 6 update 2 have a compiler bug that cause "make check" to fail with a "Encounter BINCL entry" |