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From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-13 13:55:14


[2003-07-07] Rene Rivera wrote:

>[2003-07-07] Vladimir Prus wrote:
>
>>
>>> >>this problem. It now filed at
>>> >>
>>> >> http://zigzag.cs.msu.su:7814/scarab/issues/id/BB44
>>> >>
>>> >>Rene, care to take a look?
>>> >
>>> >How frustrating. Yes, I thought I fixed this. I'll look sometime today.
>(I
>>> >just got BCC55 reinstalled after the HD chaos)
>>>
>>> And even more frustrating is that it's now fixed... and not-fixed. The
>fix
>>> has different behaviour on Windows and Linux :-( As in the jamgram.h/c
>>> files are not removed if yacc/bison fail on Windows, but they are in
>Linux.
>>> The removal is done by Jam so this is a bug we may have to address. The
>>> discrepancy shouldn't cause problems for now as it's unlikely that
>>> yacc/bison will fail on *nix systems.
>>
>>Alas, this does not really work for me. When I get a fresh checkout and
>retry
>>the steps from the issue, I see
>>
>>....removing jamgram.c
>
>Arrgg, and it continues to be anoying :-(

And even more anoying... When _I_ follow the exact steps of the issue I see
no problems. That is the first invocation fails as expected, but the second
invocation succeeds contrary to what the issue says - Which is correct
behaviour when it doesn't find bison.exe.

NOTE: this is on Win2K.

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