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Jason
Jason

Reputation: 11

How to install bison 2.4.1 on ARM64 CPU (aarch64)?

I have downloaded bison2.4.1 on my Ubuntu 16.0.4 linux on ARM 64 Board. but, I cannot proceed any more, my problem is as below:

while I executed ./configure cmd, I got the error message as below:

checking for wctype.h... yes
checking for inline... inline
checking whether system is Windows or MSDOS... no
checking build system type... build-aux/config.guess: unable to guess system type

This script, last modified 2008-12-11, has failed to recognize
the operating system you are using. It is advised that you
download the most up to date version of the config scripts from

  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD
and
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.sub;hb=HEAD

If the version you run (build-aux/config.guess) is already up to date, please
send the following data and any information you think might be
pertinent to <[email protected]> in order to provide the needed
information to handle your system.

config.guess timestamp = 2008-12-11

uname -m = aarch64
uname -r = 4.4.77-rockchip-ayufan-136
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #1 SMP Thu Oct 12 09:14:48 UTC 2017

/usr/bin/uname -p = 
/bin/uname -X     = 

hostinfo               = 
/bin/universe          = 
/usr/bin/arch -k       = 
/bin/arch              = 
/usr/bin/oslevel       = 
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = 

UNAME_MACHINE = aarch64
UNAME_RELEASE = 4.4.77-rockchip-ayufan-136
UNAME_SYSTEM  = Linux
UNAME_VERSION = #1 SMP Thu Oct 12 09:14:48 UTC 2017
configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2642

Answers (1)

rici
rici

Reputation: 241921

Since the autotools packaged with bison 2.4.1 doesn't know anything about 64-bit ARM architectures, you need to tell configure not to bother trying to guess the machine:

./configure --build=unknown-unknown-linux

I don't believe that will cause problems, but I have no way to test it since I don't have an ARM64 board kicking about (and if I did, I wouldn't install a 10-year-old bison version on it.) But I did test that configure option on my machine; it configured and built fine, and then passed all the tests in the testsuite.

aarch64 support was added in bison 2.7, I think, but you'd be better off downloading a less ancient version of bison, which will almost certainly recognize your build environment by default and run with out problems on it.

Bison 3.0.5 was released last week; you can download it at https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/bison-3.0.5.tar.xz

Upvotes: 3

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