Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/04/17/03:22:56
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Michael Burbidge wrote:
> I noticed that v2 had a later version of bison, version 1.25. I
> downloaded the binaries and installed them the way I think the
> documentation says to install them.
>
> C:\djgpp\bin
> bison.exe
> C:\djgpp\share
> bison.simple
> bison.hairy
You are not supposed to put things in directories of your choice; if
you do, things will break for you, unless you have intricate knowledge
of how Bison looks for its files.
Instead, you should have unzipped bsn125b.zip PRESERVING THE DIRECTORY
STRUCTURE that is already set for you inside the zip archive. Please
read the file README.dos inside bsn125b.zip, and install the package
*exactly* as it instructs you.
> The documentation did refer to the environment variable DJGPP.ENV but I
> couldn't find what it was for or what to set it to.
If you have DJGPP.ENV in the C:\DJGPP directory, it is already set up
for you, but ONLY if you unzip bsn125b.zip AS INSTRUCTED. If you
don't have C:\DJGPP\DJGPP.ENV file, please download and install
djdev210.zip from the DJGPP archives.
> So far I've only wasted 1 day trying to get this thing working.
I sincerely hope that this wasted day will teach you to do things the
way README tells you, and only when that fails try different ways. It
takes a lot of effort to write those READMEs and set up things in a
way that will make them work automagically; please use those efforts
to your benefit rather than to your disappointment.
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