Zack Weinberg writes: > This is a quote from the Debian package changelog for gcc 3.2: > > * FTBS: With the switch to bison-1.50 (and 1.75), gcc-3.2 fails to build > from > source on Debian unstable systems. This is fixed in gcc HEAD, but not on > the current release branch. > HELP NEEDED: > - check what is missing from the patches in debian/patches/bison.dpatch. > This is a backport of the bison related patches, but showing regressions > in the gcc testsuite, so it cannot be applied. > - build gcc using byacc (bootstrap currently fails using byacc). > - build bison-1.35 in it's own package (the current 1.35-3 package fails > to build form source). > - and finally ask upstream to backport the patch to the branch. It's not > helpful not beeing able to follow the stable branch. Maybe we should > just switch to gcc HEAD as BSD does ... > As a terrible workaround, build the sources from CVS first on a machine, > with bison-1.35 installed, then package the tarball, so the bison > generated files are not rebuilt. > > I think we should reconsider not backporting the patches for bison 1.50 > to the 3.2 branch.
btw, I noticed the very same regressions on HEAD hppa-linux, but not on HEAD i386-linux.
