From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 26 2003 - 13:59:38 CDT

Hi all,
  I've just checked in new pre-generated (and hand edited)
AtomParser.C and AtomLexer.C files, which should eliminate the
need for you to have a working lex/yacc flex/bison on your build machine.
If you have trouble compiling using the new code, let me know.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 04:35:22PM -0500, John Stone wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I wanted to send an update on this...
> I've put some time into trying out replacing the on-the-fly generation
> of lex/yacc flex/bison parsers with a single set of source files that
> will compile on all platforms. So far it hasn't been easy, I have
> various platform-specific issues to work out. This makes me wonder if
> the cure-is-worse-than-the-disease, as it were. If I can get past a few
> of the hangups though, I'll have something for people to try in another
> day or two. I just wanted to let people know that I'm working on this..
>
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 08:44:46AM +0200, Jeroen Akershoek wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:06:33 -0500
> > "John Stone" <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I just downloaded the packages of flex 2.5.4a and installed that. Seems to work now *cheer* :)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jeroen
> >
> > >
> > > Hi guys,
> > > I'm swamped until later this week. The longer-term solution to
> > > avoiding issues with broken implementations of Flex/Bison, Lex/Yacc will
> > > be for me to put pregenerated files into our CVS tree like I do for the
> > > Windows builds. That will eliminate the need for the general user community
> > > to have a working Lex/Yacc Flex/Bison installed. I can probably get this done
> > > later this week after our NIH advisory board meeting is concluded.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > John Stone
> > > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:37:28AM -0700, Brian Bennion wrote:
> > > > Hi Jereon,
> > > >
> > > > unless someone else has a better idea I think the bison/flex combo is not
> > > > working anymore where vmd is concerned.
> > > >
> > > > Try getting an older version of bison and using it. The vmd developers use
> > > > 1.28 at least as of friday the did...
> > > >
> > > > Alternatively Eamon or I could give you the three source files in question
> > > > and bypass this whole mess for awhile.
> > > >
> > > > What do you think Eamon?
> > > > Brian
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Jeroen Akershoek wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:06:33 -0700 (PDT)
> > > > > "Brian Bennion" <brian_at_youkai.llnl.gov> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hello Jeroen,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > What version of linux are you using? Is it a redhat 8 or 9 distro?
> > > > >
> > > > > Debian/GNU testing distro, gcc version 3.3.1
> > > > >
> > > > > > What version is your bison? (ie >>bison -V)
> > > > > bison (GNU Bison) 1.875a
> > > > >
> > > > > > What version is you flex?
> > > > > flex 2.5.31
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > It looks very much like it's missing some include file (missing -I perhaps), but I can't figure out which one
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Jeroen
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
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University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
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