Re: [jamboost] [boost] Re: Boost.Build V2, Milestone 3 released

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-22 01:48:41

Kirill,

> > Seems it's bison problem, but if anyone has this problem too, we'd
>
> need to
>
> > investigate more.
>
> I had exactly the same problem. Fixed it by changing path to point to
> newer bison. Alternatively problem could be avoided by changing path
> to get rid of bison.

Could you clarify what's the problem with bison? It runs but can't find 
"bison.simple"? Do you have any idea what's the reason. Where old bison comes 
from? Probably, bison from cygwin just never works and 
build.bat/build.sh/build.jam should take care of it.

> The problem though that suppose you have broken bison, you are trying
> to build, build fails, and jamgram.c deleted. You can't just fix the
> path and run build again -- you are forced to start from scratch.

Yep, that's quite troublesome. 

- Volodya