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Sneha Dolly
Sneha Dolly

Reputation: 23

compilation error: No suitable bison/yacc found

I am using gcc8.2 and linux operating system. I have bison package installed. Still I am getting the below error: echo "* Error: No suitable bison/yacc found. *" echo " Please install the 'bison' package." exit 1

I have checked the "$ac_cv_prog_YACC" and it is not having any value. It should be set to "bison -y" if bison is already installed.

Any idea why $ac_cv_prog_YACC does not have any value? I got this error when compiling the conntrack-tools package (version 1.0.1)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1373

Answers (1)

rici
rici

Reputation: 241671

You say

I have bison package installed.

But the test in the ./configure file disagrees. That means that it cannot find an executable file named bison anywhere in your $PATH. You should start by verifying that $PATH has the correct value and that there is an executable named bison. (Apparently the ./configure script for conntrack-tools only looks for bison and byacc, and not for yacc.)

I don't know much about yocto but I did find the following note in a change log for version 2.5.1:

bison-native no longer included in many dependency chains meaning some recipes need bison-native adding to DEPENDS

Upvotes: 2

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