[antlr-interest] Fedora antlr3-tool command line antlr returns version 2.7.7

John B. Brodie jbb at acm.org
Tue Aug 9 09:10:21 PDT 2011


I do not use Fedora; rather I use the jar file downloaded from antlr.org
on Ubunto 11.04 with proper CLASSPATH setting.

So my suggestion may be way off base...

On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 11:41 -0400, The Researcher wrote:
> I am test building ANTLR on Fedora 15 and installed package antlr3-tool
> using the GUI.
> 
> Using the command line I entered antlr only to see version 2.7.7 not 3.x.
> 
> While I know that 2.x versions are needed for 3.x versions to build, if I
> were to run from the command line shouldn't the antlr command be a 3.x
> version?
> 
> So the real question is, can the antlr3-tool package be trusted for use from
> the command line?

Did you use the correct command line?

java antlr.Tool # runs the v2 tool

java org.antlr.Tool # runs the v3 tool

Sorry if this was just noise....
   -jbb




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