Fwd: RE: Building bison?

[Ian Badcoe]

>Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 20:13:33 +0000
>To: Jörg Schaible <Joerg.Schaible@Elsag-Solutions.com>
>From: Ian Badcoe <ian_badcoe@yahoo.co.uk>
>Subject: RE: Building bison?
>
>At 08:38 18/11/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>>Ian,
>>
>>please stay on the list for ongoing conversation ...
>
>Yeah, still here...

Sorry!  You meant put my replies on the list, I only just understood 
you.  I had no idea they weren't already.

I never understand why mail-lists don't use themselves as the reply-to 
address...

>>Ian Badcoe wrote on Monday, November 17, 2003 9:27 PM:
>> > At 14:40 17/11/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>> >> Ian Badcoe wrote on Monday, November 17, 2003 12:49 PM:
>> >> [snip]
>> >>>       1.875c behaves nicely to a ./configure and make but it then
>> >>> crashes immediately when I give it my input script.
>> >>
>> >> Just an idea: Since Cygwin compiles as Unix flavour, the original
>> >> source may not be prepared to read files with CRLF. Try to run it
>> >> from a binary mounted folder providing a file with LF endings only.
>> >
>> > If I invoke bison indirectly:
>> >          bash -c "/usr/bin/bison MyFile.y ..."
>> >
>> > Then it works, so I suspect it's more to do with invocation than CRLF.
>>
>>What is the value of your CYGWIN enrironment variable?
>
>I don't seem to have one.  Should I have?
>
>I've always just let the install program and scripts do as they wanted and 
>it's generally worked fine in the past.
>
>> > As a general question, is there generally a lot of difference between
>> > sources downloaded from GNU and one's acquired via cygwin?
>> > Or can one mix
>> > and match freely (bugs due to version differences notwithstanding)?
>>
>>Changes for a package are normally documented in /usr/doc/Cygwin.
>
>Aha!  I'll look there immediately, thanks.  Given the combination of 
>unix-style man pages and GNU-style info pages and windows-style *.hlp 
>pages and web-style *.htm pages, that's one location I wasn't even aware 
>of.  Many thanks.
>
>Ian B
>
>>Regards,
>>Jörg
>>
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