Re: Hairy lilypond compile problem

[Eric G.Miller <egm2@jps.net>]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 12:18:45 +0800, csj <csj@mindgate.net> wrote:

> Using a brute-force dpkg-buildpackage -b -rfakeroot on the lilypond
> source package results in a build failure. The last three lines of
> stdout show:
> 
> bison -d parser.yy
> mv parser.yy.tab.h out/parser.hh
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/xa/build/debian/lilypond-1.4.9/lily'
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/xa/build/debian/lilypond-1.4.9'
> 
> My attempt at diagnostics is crude at best. From the little I learned
> from the man page of the command in question, I was able to produce the
> following not too helpful error output:
> 
> gamma:/builder/lilypond-1.4.9$ cd lily
> gamma:/builder/lilypond-1.4.9/lily$ bison -d parser.yy -v parser.yy
> contains 2 shift/reduce conflicts.
> 
> Are there any bison gurus out there. Or is this a mere symptom of an
> altogether different problem?

I'm no yacc/bison guru, but I don't think those shift/reduce conflicts
are necessarily enough to cause a build failure in themselves.  Try
finding an actual error message (like a compilation failure).  The
actual error might be due to something else entirely...

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>