[GiNaC-list] Re: ginac parsing from string issue (hopefully nailed!)

[Francesco Biscani]

Hello,

On Wednesday 12 July 2006 18:38, Jens Vollinga wrote:
> Maybe you didn't use new bison for the compilation. That depends on
> whether you used 'make clean' or removed the old compilation directory
> completely. The problem lies with 'make clean' (this is maybe not a
> feature but a bug?!?). 'make clean' doesn't remove the files "input_*"
> in the directory 'ginac'. Those are generated by bison and incorporate
> the bug in my opinion. Unless you delete these files by hand, they won't
> be re-generated by the newly installed bison.

I don't think that this is the case. I compiled ginac using the 
gentoo "portage" package manager, which erases the source directory every 
time it has finished compiling something. There is no garbage left from 
previous compilations.

I also checked that the bison version is really 2.3, and that there are no old 
binaries lying around.

> What puzzles me is that you upgraded from 2.2 to 2.3. After some
> checking I found that the last working version of bison is 2.0a. 2.0
> fails. If you look at the release dates of 2.0 and 2.0a you will find
> that the gcc 4.0 release lies just in between ... Sadly, there are no
> explicit remarks about a related bug in the Changelog of bison (but
> maybe I've overseen it somehow), so I don't know about its nature and
> how it has been fixed.
>

I'm not familiar with the intricacies of bison and friends, so I don't quite 
understand how it relates to the compiler and ginac. But please tell me if I 
can do more tests, I'll be an happy guinea pig :)

Thanks,

  Francesco