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From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-22 11:09:34


[2003-05-21] klapshin wrote:

>--- In jamboost_at_[hidden], Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_c...> wrote:
>> > unpack to a fresh location
>> > cd jam_src
>> > run build.bat (and watch it this time):
>> >
>> > bison.simple not found
>> >
>> > So, it appears that I've got a dodgy installation of bison, and
>> > consequently build.bat deletes jamgram.c and jamgram.h. Now we're
>worse off
>> > than at the start.
>>
>> 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.
>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.

I'll try and come up with something to prevent the deletion.

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