Re: yacc dependency of aic7xxx driver

[Jörn Nettingsmeier <nettings@folkwang-hochschule.de>]

"Justin T. Gibbs" wrote:
> 
> >hello justin !
> >
> >i have just tried to install the latest 2.4.3pre3 kernel with your
> >driver.
> >it failed with yacc: file not found.
> >while i could install yacc, i have never had to use it before. i was
> >assuming that the newer bison could do the same thing (which is what
> >i have installed).
> >so far, the kernel has not relied on yacc, which is why i'd like to
> >ask you if it's possible to make it work with bison.
> 
> The assembler makefile doesn't reference yacc, but instead relies
> on gmake's built in rules to figure out how to generate a .c from
> a .y.  I'm somewhat surprised that bison doesn't create a link to
> yacc or that gmake doesn't try to look for bison.
> 
> Oh well.  We'll just have to be more careful in how future patches
> are generated so that the dependency between the generated firmware
> files and the firmware source only triggers if you are actually
> performing firmware development.  Trying to build this simple
> assmebler on everyone's systems is turning out to be just too
> hard.

i might also be SuSE 7.1 related, since this was the first kernel i
compiled on the new distro.
but since the problem arose only with the new aic driver, i thought
it might be that you had a slightly different development
environment...?

anyway, robbert muller sent me the following simple workaround:


<quote>
Just create a shell script called yacc with the following content
-------------------
#!/bin/sh
bison --yacc $*
-------------------
i ran into the same problem with a school proiject here yesterday
</quote>


regards,

jörn


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