Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] Cobol compilation problem on Debian Lenny

[David E. <de...@us...>]

Massimo Spataro wrote:

 > I have download and open tar file for start
 > porting of old source of cobol for micr*focus
 > compiler. But i have this problem on directory
 > /compiler
 >
 > tinycobol-0.63# make
 > Making all in compiler
 > make[1]: Entering directory ` ... /compiler'
 > gcc ... -c scan.c
 > scan.c:1076: error: expected â=â, â,â, â;â, âasmâ
 > or â__attribute__â before âYY_PROTOâ
 > scan.l:744: error: expected â=â, â,â, â;â, âasmâ
 > or â__attribute__â before âYY_PROTOâ
 > make[1]: *** [scan.o] Error 1
 > ...
 > Have you think, where is problem ?

I think that this problem may be caused by a macro 'define' problem with
flex versions greater that 2.5.4.

Specifically by the following macro 'define', as found in scan.l:61.

#define YY_DECL int yylex2 YY_PROTO((void))

The following code will fix the problem for all version (I hope) of flex.

#ifdef YY_USE_PROTOS
#define YY_DECL int yylex2 YY_PROTO((void))
#else
#define YY_PROTO(proto) (void)
#define YY_DECL int yylex2(void)
#endif

Note that TC CVS version 0.63.63 or greater has this fix included.

Hope this helps.

David Essex