Re: wuftpd 2.6.2 does not compile on Fedora Core 2

Bob Luckin <[email protected]> Wed, 26 May 2004 18:15:57 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.network.ftp.wuftpd.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
So my memory's going...

Tab or equals - what's the difference among friends ?  :-)

Thanks for the update; glad you got it working.

Cheers, Bob

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 05:54:02PM -0500, Ron Flory wrote:
> 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
> 

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Bob Luckin      [email protected]      "Coder, adapt; FTP Ada, redo C"