Re: regression test failure

Strange.  I know we check for bison >= 1.875, and you have that, and so
do I, but I don't see those regression failures.  Is it possible you
have old bison output files from an older bison release?

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Neil Conway wrote:
> When I run the regression tests against current sources, I get
> failures because bison-generated error messages use "parse
> error", not "syntax error". I vaguely recall running into
> this issue before I left for the summer -- did we resolve
> it?
> 
> [neil@arch neil]$ uname -a
> FreeBSD arch.wavefire.com 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #9: Fri Jul 25 12:10:58 PDT 2003
root@arch.wavefire.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WORKSTATION-5.0-SMP i386
 
> [neil@arch neil]$ bison --version
> bison (GNU Bison) 1.875
> [neil@arch neil]$ flex --version
> flex version 2.5.4
> 
> regression.diffs is attached.
> 
> -Neil
> 
> P.S. Someone should go ahead and re-generate INSTALL from 
> the latest SGML: INSTALL still claims that we need bison
> 1.50 or greater.
> 

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