Hans Aberg wrote:
On 22 Jun 2007, at 13:42, Fernando Ferreira wrote:
Greetings, fellow developers!
I'm trying to compile bison from CVS, but it keeps failing at
bootstrap phase. Here is what I'm doing:
cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sources/bison co bison
cd bison/
./bootstrap
And here is the error message it is giving me in the (abrupt) end of
the process:
configure.ac:101: error: ` ' is already registered with
AC_CONFIG_FILES.
../../lib/autoconf/status.m4:300: AC_CONFIG_FILES is expanded from...
m4/gnulib-comp.m4:36: gl_INIT is expanded from...
configure.ac:101: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
Autoconf requires the latest m4, but it actually calls gm4 it seems.
So I installed the latest M4, which ended up in /usr/local/bin/m4 on
my system, and added a soft link
/usr/local/bin/gm4 -> /usr/local/bin/m4
Then it worked.
Hans Aberg
Well, I saw that thread when I was looking up for possible solutions,
but that is not the same problem you had in
http://www.nabble.com/Re:-Installing-Bison-from-CVS-p10235415.html This
one is a different one, and I solved it already, the description of the
solution is in my original email :-D It was really a bug on
gnulib-tools, I suppose, a mis-escaped backslash.
