Re: wuftpd 2.6.2 does not compile on Fedora Core 2

Ron Flory <[email protected]> Wed, 26 May 2004 17:54:02 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.network.ftp.wuftpd.user
Organization Adtran
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Bob Luckin wrote:
> The code in ftpcmd.y is not compliant with newer versions of bison.  I _think_
> this has been fixed in development.
> 
> If I recall correctly, there are lines in it which contain tabs, which the
> newer bison doesn't like.  Try changing the tabs to spaces and see if this
> works.  Or try running under an older version of bison (I found an email
> claiming it works under bison 1.35, for example).

  hi-

  I found that if i manually removed all the '=' from the "= {" defs in
ftpcmd.y that it parses OK.  I didn't have any tab issues, just unwanted
'=' chars.

  Apparently all those "=" don't belong there and were silently ignored
by previous versions of bison.

ron