Re: Newbie compilation problem: "parsdate.y: not found"

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 07:22:57PM -0800, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi, all -
> 
> I'm trying to compile tin 1.5.8 under cygwin, but when I run the

current stable version is tin 1.6.2

> expect 6 shift/reduce conflicts...
> ./parsdate.y
> ./parsdate.y: not found
> make: *** [parsdate.o] Error 127

you dont have a YACC-parser installed (i.e. yacc or byacc or bison),
but configure should have told you that and issed a warning. so
either go and get a YACC-parser (or copy parsdate.c from the
vms-subdir into the src-dir and tweak the makefile).

> I am a novice to the whole cygwin environment, tin, and *nix (but
> not command lines!) in general.  But I cannot understand why the
> make command is claiming it cannot find the file which is clearly
> present and valid in the src directory.

cause it tries to invoke "$YACC ./parsdate.y" with $YSACC set to the
insatted yacc-parser, but in your case $YACC is empty so it tries to
invoke ./parsdate.y which is no executable...

> I saw another thread in this group that implied that one needs
> something called 'yacc' to be installed, and I don't recall ever

right

> installing it, but it doesn't look to me like it's even getting
> that far.  Would the "parsdate.y: not found" error be appropriate

it does, you need to install yacc, yacc will transform the grammer
described in parsdate.y into code which then will be compiled.

> if, in fact, parsdate.y is present but the interpreter isn't?

the "interprete" would be yacc (or bison or byacc), but you do not
ahve it on your system (configure should have detected that and issue
a warning). install yacc and reconfigure.

urs
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