Bug 382987 – add sys-devel/bison as a dependency to dev-libs/gobject-introspection

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description ari edelkind 2011-09-14 18:51:22 UTC]

When building gobject-introspection, econf fails without bison installed:

checking lex library... -lfl
checking whether yytext is a pointer... yes
checking for bison... no
configure: error: bison not found but required

After installing bison, the build succeeds.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Do not have bison installed
2. emerge gobject-introspection
3. Profit!

[Comment 1 Matt Turner 2011-09-20 19:53:21 UTC]

Fixed. Not sure why gnome@ wasn't able to beat me to it.

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2011-09-20 20:04:28 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Fixed. Not sure why gnome@ wasn't able to beat me to it.

Thanks for fixing it :)

For some reason I lost track on this bug :(

[Comment 3 Pacho Ramos 2011-09-20 20:06:30 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Fixed. Not sure why gnome@ wasn't able to beat me to it.

But I think it should DEPEND on virtual/yacc, can you check if it would be possible (I cannot test it just now :()

Thanks again

[Comment 4 Matt Turner 2011-09-20 20:15:41 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Fixed. Not sure why gnome@ wasn't able to beat me to it.
> 
> But I think it should DEPEND on virtual/yacc, can you check if it would be
> possible (I cannot test it just now :()
> 
> Thanks again

I've tried with a few programs (I've done a lot of these bison bugs) and I haven't found one yet that worked with plain yacc. I'm not going to bother to do it.

Feel free to close or reassign the bug.

[Comment 5 Pacho Ramos 2011-09-21 13:35:42 UTC]

Yeah, just checked it doesn't work with plain yacc :( (maybe the virtual should be dropped if there are a lot of packages not working with dev-util/yacc)

[Comment 6 Pacho Ramos 2011-09-21 13:36:08 UTC]

Original solution is ok then