[antlr-interest] 2.7.2 build system is fubar

[Terence Parr]

Hi Dave,

Are you trying to use the Java output or C++?

Terence

On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 01:58 PM, Dave <davekam at pobox.com> 
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Recently I've been reading up on lex and yacc, and discovered the
> existence of antlr. So I thought I'd install it and try it out.
> Unfortunately there seems to be no easy way to do this in the ordinary
> way on Unix. As one of the readme files says, in theory you should be
> able to do:
>
> ./configure
> make
> make install
>
> from the top level directory. But when attempting make, this results
> in the following:
>
> davekam at vokzal:~/temp/antlr-2.7.2$ make
> =============================
> Making dependencies...
> =============================
> =============================
> Making antlr ...
> =============================
> java -cp /Users/davekam/temp/antlr-2.7.2/antlrall.jar antlr.Tool
> antlr.g
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: antlr/Tool
> make[1]: *** [.antlr.g] Error 1
> make: *** [subdirs] Error 2
>
> ...because antlrall.jar is not included in the distribution! I can't
> really tell what the difference is supposed to be between antlr.jar
> and antlrall.jar -- antlr.jar is included and seems to work. So I went
> into scripts/Config.make.in and changed the occurence of antlrall.jar
> to antlr.jar, set BOOTSTRAP_JAR to antlr.jar, and reran configure and
> make. Then I get a string of errors such as the following:
>
> davekam at vokzal:~/temp/antlr-2.7.2$ make
> =============================
> Making antlr ...
> =============================
> java -cp /Users/davekam/temp/antlr-2.7.2/antlr.jar antlr.Tool
> antlr.g
> ANTLR Parser Generator   Version 2.7.2   1989-2003 jGuru.com
> cannot write to './ANTLRParser.java'
> java -cp /Users/davekam/temp/antlr-2.7.2/antlr.jar antlr.Tool
> tokdef.g
> ANTLR Parser Generator   Version 2.7.2   1989-2003 jGuru.com
> cannot write to './ANTLRTokdefLexer.java'
>
> ...because the files in question are mode 444 (read-only). So I did:
>
> find . -perm 444 -exec chmod 666 {} ';'
>
> ...and make and make install seemed to run fine. So I tried out the
> new install:
>
> davekam at vokzal:~/antlr-2.7.2/examples/cpp/filter$ antlr t.g
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: antlr/Tool
>
> The jar files were installed as follows:
>
> davekam at vokzal:~/antlr-2.7.2$ ls -l /usr/local/share/antlr-2.7.2
> total 1056
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  staff  120804 Feb 16 16:51 antlr.debug.jar
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  staff   89558 Feb 16 16:51 antlr.jar
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  staff  326647 Feb 16 16:51 antlrall.jar
>
> Should there have been an antlr/ directory too? I'm not sure, but
> obviously it doesn't work. At this point one might like to start the
> build over again by running make clean... which deletes my antlr.jar
> file, which means I have to unpack the tarball and start again
> completely from scratch?!?
>
> Unless I'm seriously missing something here, I don't see how it's
> possible to build and install antlr in the current version. Help much
> appreciated.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
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