avrdude needs yacc? Not Byacc?

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Posted by paulofelora: Wed. Aug 27, 2014 - 10:48 PM
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Just tried to install avrdude 6.1 but make barfs on "../ylwrap: line 176: yacc: command not found". I was able to find a "Berkeley Yacc", installed it but no joy. My Opensuse 13.1 Yast doesn't know what yacc is, either, so I don't feel so bad. Any suggestions? thanks, paul

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Posted by alexru: Thu. Aug 28, 2014 - 12:46 AM
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Install bison. It is a GNU implementation of yacc and it will provide yacc command.

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Posted by paulofelora: Thu. Aug 28, 2014 - 02:12 AM
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Ahhh thanks Alexru - but now I get some BS about lexer.c:

    paul@linux-dvlb:~/Projects/avrdude-6.1/obj-avr> sudo make /bin/sh ../ylwrap ../lexer.l .c lexer.c -- :
    make all-recursive
    make[1]: Entering directory `/home/paul/Projects/avrdude-6.1/obj-avr'
    Making all in .
    make[2]: Entering directory `/home/paul/Projects/avrdude-6.1/obj-avr'
    /bin/sh ../ylwrap ../lexer.l .c lexer.c -- :
    gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -DCONFIG_DIR="/etc" -Wall -Wno-pointer-sign -g -O2 -MT libavrdude_a-lexer.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/libavrdude_a-lexer.Tpo -c -o libavrdude_a-lexer.o `test -f 'lexer.c' || echo '../'`lexer.c
    gcc: error: ../lexer.c: No such file or directory
    gcc: fatal error: no input files
    compilation terminated.
    make[2]: *** [libavrdude_a-lexer.o] Error 1
    make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/paul/Projects/avrdude-6.1/obj-avr'
    make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
    make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/paul/Projects/avrdude-6.1/obj-avr'
    make: *** [all] Error 2
Seems very difficult to get this to work, maybe I'll try Windows...

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Posted by alexru: Thu. Aug 28, 2014 - 02:14 AM
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It looks like this "/bin/sh ../ylwrap ../lexer.l .c lexer.c -- :" was supposed to create "../lexer.c", but did not.

Why not just install avrdude from the repo?

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Posted by alexru: Thu. Aug 28, 2014 - 02:17 AM
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I've just tried on Mint and simple

./configure
make

worked without any problems.

Try without sudo.

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Posted by snigelen: Thu. Aug 28, 2014 - 06:52 AM
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I think this have happened to me too. I had to de-install both byacc and bison and install only bison after that IIRC.

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Posted by paulofelora: Thu. Aug 28, 2014 - 02:33 PM
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thanks, guys, I'll try that tonight - paul

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Posted by securitymouse: Sat. Dec 27, 2014 - 03:19 AM (Reply to #7)
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If you never figured this out, the solution is to install `flex`. The configure script builds an invalid Makefile if flex isn't installed, but yacc/byacc is, instead of throwing an error. 

 

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