On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:11 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > Ok. I figured out a hack for this problem. First set CONFIG_SHELL to /bin/ksh. Then prefix the configure command with ksh. So it will be ksh ../../unZipped/bison-2.4.1/configure After that, configure proceeds without any problems.