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Date:      Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:18:48 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Ian Moore <imoore@hamcoll.sa.edu.au>
Cc:        Questions Free BSD <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Error compiling bison
Message-ID:  <20041019151848.GA54531@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <4174A6BF.1080905@hamcoll.sa.edu.au>
References:  <4174A6BF.1080905@hamcoll.sa.edu.au>

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On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 03:01:43PM +0930, Ian Moore wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to install php4 on a 4.6-Release machine. bison-1.75 is a 
> dependency & it stops partway through compiling it.
> 
> Here is the output:
> 
> Making all in doc
> makeinfo --no-split   -I .  `test -f 'bison.texinfo' || echo 
> './'`bison.texinfo -o bison.info
> bison.texinfo:37: Unknown command `copying'.
> bison.texinfo:58: Unmatched `@end'.
> bison.texinfo:93: Unknown command `insertcopying'.
> makeinfo: Removing output file `bison.info' due to errors; use --force 
> to preserve.
> *** Error code 2
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/devel/bison/work/bison-1.75/doc.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/devel/bison/work/bison-1.75.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/devel/bison/work/bison-1.75.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/devel/bison.
> 
> I tried downloading and installing the package as well, but that gives 
> the following error:
> pkg_add /usr/ports/packages/bison-1.75_2.tgz
> pkg_add: read_plist: bad command '@conflicts bison-1.8[0-9]*'
> 
> I'm guessing something in the base system is too old to handle compiling 
> this port?

Yes.  See the archives for extensive discussion.

Kris

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