VMD-L Mailing List

From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 25 2003 - 16:35:22 CDT

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
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > *****************************************************************
> > > **Brian Bennion, Ph.D. **
> > > **Computational and Systems Biology Division **
> > > **Biology and Biotechnology Research Program **
> > > **Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory **
> > > **P.O. Box 808, L-448 bennion1_at_llnl.gov **
> > > **7000 East Avenue phone: (925) 422-5722 **
> > > **Livermore, CA 94550 fax: (925) 422-6605 **
> > > *****************************************************************
> > >
> >
> > --
> > NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> > Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> > University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> > Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu Phone: 217-244-3349
> > WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Fax: 217-244-6078
>
>
> --
> Jeroen Akershoek, VR Specialist
> SARA Computing and Network Services
> tel: +31 20 5923000 fax: +31 20 6683167
>
> A polar bear is a rectangular bear after a coordinate transform. 

-- 
NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu                 Phone: 217-244-3349              
  WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/      Fax: 217-244-6078