Re: make distclean breaks "later "configure && makes"", i.e., removes a file in distro that a build needs (cannot process parse.y)

[Greg Wooledge]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 01:03:05PM +0100, Michael Felt wrote:
> If after a successful build, I run "make distclean" - "./configure && make" 
> no longer works.

> configure: WARNING: bison not available; needed to process parse.y
> + /usr/bin/make > .buildaix/make.out
> yacc: not found

You need to install the bison package.  The tarballs of bash source
include an already-processed yacc file, but "make distclean" removes
that, and you need bison (or yacc, but bison is preferred) to recreate
it.