[Nix-dev] GNU Bison fails on Cygwin

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Michael Raskin <7c6f434c at mail.ru> writes:

> Investigation showed that:
> 1. The build failure was caused by impossibility to build bison
> 2. Bison build failed in the testsuite
> 3. The only failed test was output to file called "^%\:" (of course this
> fails on Windows).
>
> So, should we simply kill this test on i686-cygwin as a known problem
> (better yet, just remove : and \ from the filename)?

Temporarily, yes.  But above all this should be reported to
bug-bison at gnu.org.

Thanks,
Ludo’.