[Cscope-devel] [ cscope-Bugs-884089 ] cscope 15.5 build errors during

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Bugs item #884089, was opened at 2004-01-25 12:37
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Category: None
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
>Assigned to: Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker)
>Summary: cscope 15.5 build errors during 

Initial Comment:


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: cscope 15.5
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 06:25:51 -0500
From: Fred Ma <fm...@do...>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.programmer

Hello,

I just downloaded cscope-15.5 from

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4664

and tried to build it on solaris 8 as
nonadministrator (I'm not administrator).  So I
supply ./configure with --prefix=MyOwnDirectory.
There are no errors or warnings in the configure
output, but the subsequent make step has fatal
errors with the following message:

   make  all-recursive
   make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/fma/cscope-15.5'
   Making all in doc
   make[2]: Entering directory
`/tmp/fma/cscope-15.5/doc'
   make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
   make[2]: Leaving directory
`/tmp/fma/cscope-15.5/doc'
   Making all in src
   make[2]: Entering directory
`/tmp/fma/cscope-15.5/src'
   /bin/bash ../ylwrap `test -f 'fscanner.l' || echo
'./'`fscanner.l .c fscanner.c -- :  
   make[2]: *** [fscanner.c] Error 1
   make[2]: Leaving directory
`/tmp/fma/cscope-15.5/src'
   make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
   make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/fma/cscope-15.5'
   make: *** [all] Error 2

I looked at the Makefile in src/ and it is much
more complicated than the ones I write.

The INSTALL file says that solaris's native lex
"fails to catch our redefinition of YYLMAX early
enough, which leads to possible buffer overflows".
No suggested actions.  Do I need to install flex?

There is a platform-independent suggestion to use
flex rather than lex.  Neither seem to be on my
system.  I also took a look at the ylwrap script
mentioned in the errors.  Nothing obvious about
what may be the cause.  There is mention of yacc,
but that isn't recognized on our system.  

The INSTALL file syas that on Linux, "configure
may fail if lex is a synomyn for flex".  For me,
configure didn't fail, and neither lex nor flex is
recognized.  But I tried the described fix anyway:

	make distclean
	./configure --with-flex
	make

This doesn't prevent the fatal errors above.

What is the next best thing to try or read up
about?

Thanks.

Fred

P.S.  A web address is given to report build
problems, but I'm not sure that it is a bug.  The
reporting site
http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=addbug&group_id=4664
suggests that it is for bugs.
-- 
Fred Ma
Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario
Canada, K1S 5B6



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>Comment By: Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker)
Date: 2004-01-27 19:36

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Answered in the newsgroup, so I'll close this.

Resolution: neither lex nor flex were present on the OP's
Solaris box.  That obviously cannot work.

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