Re: Install question

Well, I'm defnitely later than 2.35. I'm at Bison 2.1.

You made it sound so easy, and I guess it would have been if I had taken the 
time to figure out the necessary general expression! There must have been 50 
of these statements, but it finally compiled.

Thanks


> I seem to recall seeing this on the list before.  If I'm right, it's a bug
> in ftpcmd.y, but early versions of bison and yacc are tolerant of the 
> invalid
> syntax, while newer ones aren't.
>
> If you have bison 1.35 or earlier (or Berkeley yacc 1.9), try that.  If 
> not,
> try editing ftpcmd.y to change all occurrences of "<tab>=<tab>{" to 
> "<tab>{".
>
> Thanks to Keith Thompson, who first diagnosed this issue and reported it 
> to
> the list.
>
> Good luck !
>
> Cheers, Bob
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 06:59:18PM -0400, Jack Gostl wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to install wu-ftp-2.6.2 under AIX 5.3.  Things start out 
>> pretty well, and then.....
>>
>>
>>        (cd src ; make all)
>>         bison -y ftpcmd.y
>> ftpcmd.y:197.9: syntax error, unexpected =
>> ftpcmd.y:205.9: syntax error, unexpected =
>> ftpcmd.y:228.17-18: $2 of `cmd' has no declared type
>> ftpcmd.y:260.17-18: $2 of `cmd' has no declared type
>> ftpcmd.y:271.17-18: $2 of `cmd' has no declared type
>>
>>
>> Those errors go on for several screens.
>>
>> I believe I'm running the "current" version of bison since I just 
>> installed it from gnu.org. Any ideas what would be causing this?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> ...NOTE : HTML SECTION HAS BEEN FILTERED OUT AT THIS LOCATION...
> -- 
> Bob Luckin      [email protected]      "Coder, adapt; FTP Ada, redo C"
>