[41581] trunk/dports/devel/libidl/Portfile

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 6, 2008, at 16:35, Marcus Calhoun-Lopez wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at ...> writes:
>
>> On Nov 6, 2008, at 07:40, mcalhoun at ... wrote:
>>
>>> Revision: 41581
>>>           http://trac.macports.org/changeset/41581
>>> Author:   mcalhoun at ...
>>> Date:     2008-11-06 05:40:00 -0800 (Thu, 06 Nov 2008)
>>> Log Message:
>>> -----------
>>> libidl: use system bison since MacPorts bison 2.4 (#41450) does not
>>> work
>>
>> Could you elaborate how MacPorts bison 2.4 does not work for you? I'm
>> having trouble with it too, for pure-devel [1], but using the system
>> bison is not an option for me as I need at least version 2.1a and
>> Tiger provides version 1.28.
>
> The libidl Makefile calls
> bison -y -d -v 2>/dev/null ./parser.y
>
> The MacPorts version of bison is called, and an error ensues:
> /opt/local/bin/bison -y -d -v ./parser.y
> ./parser.y:610.9-10:
>         $$ for the midrule at $6 of `struct_type' has no declared type
> ./parser.y:627.9-10: $$
>         for the midrule at $10 of `union_type' has no declared type
>
> The Leopard version of bison gives innocuous looking warnings:
> /usr/bin/bison -y -d -v ./parser.y
> ./parser.y:606.25-618.1: warning: unused value: $3
> ./parser.y:621.25-635.1: warning: unused value: $3
> ./parser.y:716.25-732.1: warning: unused value: $4
> ./parser.y:780.25-781.68: warning: unused value: $1
> ./parser.y:811.25-818.1: warning: unused value: $3
> ./parser.y:926.25-933.1: warning: unused value: $3
>
> Unfortunately, I know very little about Bison and Yacc, so the  
> quickest fix
> seemed to be to simply call the system bison.
>
> This was not needed a few days ago, so it seems to be a result of  
> the upgrade
> of bison 2.3 -> 2.4.
>
> I know it is a really bad idea, but if Bison 2.4 is a significant  
> change that is
> causing problems with several ports, we could always create a bison- 
> compat
> port which would remain at version 2.3.

I already requested a bison23 port be created:

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17113