kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@xxxxxxxxx> 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. 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. Ian