splint @3.1.2: cat: signature.tab.c: No such file or directory

[rgovostes@…]

Under 10.6, splint 3.1.2 fails with missing files ("signature.tab.c").

The file should be created by bison, per the Makefile:

$(BISON) $(YFLAGS) -p lsl signature.y

If I run this command manually, it works fine, so I'm not sure what the issue is.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Please remember to fill in the port field and cc the maintainer, as per the ticket guidelines.

[blb@…]

Fails for me as well, but in a definitely different way, so seems like a parallel build issue; disabled such in r60585.

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

The bug is back on Big Sur, macOS Version 11.2:

Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_devel_splint/splint/work/splint-3.1.2/src'
* Making signature.c
signature.y:59.1-12: warning: deprecated directive: ‘%pure_parser’, use ‘%define api.pure’ [-Wdeprecated]
   59 | %pure_parser
      | ^~~~~~~~~~~~
      | %define api.pure
signature.y: warning: fix-its can be applied.  Rerun with option '--update'. [-Wother]
grep "FLG_" flags.def > Headers/flag_codes.gen
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make
make[3]: Entering directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_devel_splint/splint/work/splint-3.1.2/src'
Compiling cgrammar.c...
Compiling cscanner.c...
Compiling mtscanner.c...
Compiling mtgrammar.c...
Compiling llgrammar.c...
Compiling signature.c...
signature.c:181:10: fatal error: 'signature.tab.h' file not found
#include "signature.tab.h"
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
make[3]: *** [signature.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_devel_splint/splint/work/splint-3.1.2/src'

The file name signature.o comes from signature.c.

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

Patch to fix warning

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

I installed automake17 and ran configure with the options ACLOCAL=/opt/local/bin/aclocal-17 AUTOMAKE=/opt/local/bin/automake-17 – no change. So I am going to try other versions of automake – ​http://splint.org/bugs.html claims that automake makes the difference…

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

I meant autoconf!

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

With autoconf264 the build process happens to find that C header file:

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  all-recursive
Making all in src
Compiling cgrammar.c...
Compiling cscanner.c...
Compiling mtscanner.c...
Compiling mtgrammar.c...
Compiling llgrammar.c...
Compiling signature.c...
Compiling cppmain.c...

but it fails later:

Compiling importNodeList.c...
Compiling tokentable.c...
Compiling scan.c...
In file included from scan.c:49:
Headers/scan.h:11:29: error: unknown type name 'YYSTYPE'
extern unsigned int lsllex (YYSTYPE *p_lval);
                            ^
scan.c:61:22: error: unknown type name 'YYSTYPE'
unsigned int lsllex (YYSTYPE *lval)
                     ^
2 errors generated.
make[2]: *** [scan.o] Error 1

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

An eMail containing a bug report (to info@…) returned. splint seems to be dead.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Let's not reopen this ancient ticket which was about a different error message and which had apparently been fixed for over a decade. The new error is now being tracked in #66311.