On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > Sorry about that. I thought gcc maintainers might be familiar with it. > 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. As said in my original email, bison does not configure if CONFIG_SHELL is set to /bin/ksh.