Subject: Re: sudo/yacc contrariness
To: None <brice@ist.flinders.edu.au>
From: Donald J. Maddox <dmaddox@rhiannon.scsn.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/06/1995 21:58:10
Hi Holocaine,

> Greetings,
> 	I recently tried to compile sudo 1.2 on a Sparc ELC running -1.0. Th=
e
> C bits of it compiled fine but the yacc parser that it uses to read t=
he
> sudoers file seemed to be broken in that it refers to a variable yyli=
neno
> that doesn't seem to appear anywhere including liby.a. I managed to f=
ix
> the sudo part but visudoers referred to a number of other variables t=
hat
> didn't appear to exist so I gave up on that. Any ideas as to what's c=
ausing
> this and what could fix it? Is it just that -1.0s yacc is broken?
> 			Thanks,
> 				Benno.
>

=20   I think that your problem is not with yacc, but with lex.  If you
use 'lex -l' instead of just 'lex' this problem will go away...


=20                                         Donald J. Maddox,
=20                                         Reply-To: dmaddox@scsn.net