syntax error at line 23510: `}' unexpected

[kamaraju kusumanchi]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> When trying to configure bison 2.4.1
>> (http://directory.fsf.org/project/bison/) on a Solaris 2.8, the
>> configuration stops with
>>
>>
>>> ../../unZipped/bison-2.4.1/configure
>> ../../unZipped/bison-2.4.1/configure: syntax error at line 23510: `}' unexpected
>
> Although you sent this to gcc-help, bison is not part of gcc.
>

Sorry about that. I thought gcc maintainers might be familiar with it.

> If you want to configure gcc, you should set CONFIG_SHELL to /bin/ksh,
> as described at http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#x-x-solaris2 .
> That may help your bison problem as well.

As said in my original email, bison does not configure if CONFIG_SHELL
is set to /bin/ksh.