r.mapcalc compile trouble - was Re: [GRASS5] I18N for GRASS: continued discussion

[Glynn Clements]

Scott W Mitchell wrote:

> > AFAICT, the problem is that the previous rule isn't terminated with a
> > semicolon. It appears that my version of bison[1] doesn't care about
> > this, but yours does.
> 
> Great, that fixed it, thanks.  Now I get the same kind of error for 
> r.weight, and to fix it, following your model, I had to add semicolons 
> as you did to all the rules in the first ~250 lines - then it compiled 
> fine.

Right; I'll fix that too.

> > [1] Not only my version, but that of everyone else who has compiled
> > any version of GRASS since at least -pre4; byacc (Berkeley yacc)
> > doesn't care either.
> 
> Yeah, my other systems are compiling this fine too.  This one, however, 
> has:
> bouteloua:/usr/local/src/grass> bison --version
> bison (GNU Bison) 1.75
> Written by Robert Corbett and Richard Stallman.
> 
> It's installed by the "testing" release of Debian, so perhaps it's 
> "coming soon" to all sorts of releases, I dunno...  I checked, but 
> don't see anything in the man page re: this issue changing, and all I 
> see in the info pages is that sure enough they want a semi-colon at the 
> end of each rule.

Yep; it's odd that neither byacc nor (earlier version of) bison even
generate a warning.

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Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>