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Mention Gzip version problem, and bootstrapping issues.
Remove troubleshooting section, as it's somewhat obsolete.
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2005-08-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> 2005-08-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* README-cvs: Give URLs for recommended tools.
Mention Gzip version problem, and bootstrapping issues.
Remove troubleshooting section, as it's somewhat obsolete.
* bootstrap (no_cache): New var, to accommodate different wget * bootstrap (no_cache): New var, to accommodate different wget
variants. Use it instead of '-C off'. Problem reported by variants. Use it instead of '-C off'. Problem reported by
twlevo@xs4all.nl. twlevo@xs4all.nl.

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@@ -9,11 +9,25 @@ Only the sources are installed in the CVS repository (to ease the
maintenance, merges etc.), therefore you will have to get the latest maintenance, merges etc.), therefore you will have to get the latest
stable versions of the maintainer tools we depend upon, including: stable versions of the maintainer tools we depend upon, including:
- Automake - Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
- Autoconf - Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
- Flex - Flex <http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/>
- Gettext - Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
- CVS Bison itself - Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>
- Tar <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/>
- Wget <http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>
As of this writing, the latest stable version of Gzip is 1.2.4 but we
suggest using test version 1.3.5 (or later, if one becomes available).
Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if
Valgrind supports your architecture.
Bison is written using Bison grammars, so there are bootstrapping
issues. The bootstrap script attempts to discover when the C code
generated from the grammars is out of date, and to bootstrap with an
out-of-date version of the C code, but the process is not foolproof.
Also, you may run into similar problems yourself if you modify Bison.
Only building the initial full source tree will be a bit painful, Only building the initial full source tree will be a bit painful,
later, a plain `cvs update -P & make' should be sufficient. later, a plain `cvs update -P & make' should be sufficient.
@@ -39,33 +53,13 @@ and the CVS master copy:
$ cvs diff $ cvs diff
should output no difference, except maybe the date in po/*.po files. should output no difference.
Enjoy! Enjoy!
* Troubleshooting
Unfortunately the current Gettext still does not include all the
needed tools so that the bootstrapping always perform successfully.
If you experience problems, I suggest the following:
1. Do a regular CVS checkout
2. Fetch a recent tarball in:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/bison/
3. Extract it
4. Override the content of your checkout with the content of this
tarball, i.e.:
cp -r bison-1.875c/* bison-cvs
5. Proceed on ./configure && make etc.
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This file is part of GNU Bison. This file is part of GNU Bison.