[Aldor-l] Building Aldor

[Bill Page]

Thanks Ralf, that was it. I did not recognize the symptoms.

 #  sudo apt-get install byacc flex

solved the problem.

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Ralf Hemmecke <ralf at hemmecke.de> wrote:
> On 08/04/2011 03:10 AM, Bill Page wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone recently successfully built Aldor from the aldor.org
>> sources on an up-to-date Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit system? I haven't build
>> Aldor for a couple of years. When I tried it now the build gets past
>> the first stage of C compiles but seems to very quickly grab all of
>> memory and it starts intensive swapping within the first few seconds
>> during the first first call to Aldor to compile an algebra library.  I
>> believe the I modified the Makefile.global file correctly before
>> starting the build. I do not recall any problems like this when I last
>> did this on the same system when it was running Ubuntu (or maybe it
>> was Debian) two years ago.
>
> I remember somebody else running into this problem. Me?
> Oh yes, it was bison. Remember that Aldor (from aldor.org) doesn't compile
> with bison, you have to make sure that it finds byacc.
>
> Ralf
>