[Asterisk-Users] asterisk compile problem

[Nik Martin]

Fletcher Bonds wrote:
> Hello all
> 
> As of 5pm PST today (7/13), I pulled Asterisk down off of
> cvs.digium.com:/usr/cvsroot and tried to compile it on Linux ES 2.1 
> 
> Actually, I pulled down zaptel, libri & asterisk and compiled them in
> that order as per my install guide. 
> 
> When I try to compile asterisk with "make clean; make install", it
> runs okay for a bit and then I get the following error: (ignore
> Outlooks insistence at capitalizing the first letters of these
> lines/sentences - it's all   
> lowercase)
> 
> Bison ast_expr.y --name-prefix=ast_yy -o ast_expr.c
> Ast_expr.y:110: unrecognized: %locations
> Ast_expr.y:110:    Skipping to next %
> Ast_expr.y:141: invalid @-construct
> Ast_expr.y:141: $. Is invalid
> [these last two lines repeat iterating the line number (141) up to
> 155 then:] 
> Make: *** [ast_expr.c] Error 1
> 
> And it stops.  I've looked at this source file starting at the 110
> line location, (I'm not a C programmer though) and I don't see
> anything obviously wrong to fix.  
> 
> Additional info on my system:  This is a fresh install of Linux ES
> 2.1 on a HP ProLiant DL380 - It's custom install with Development &
> Kernel Development packages installed as well as OpenSSL-Devel,
> Readline41, Ncurses4, Ncurses C++ Devel, SOX & mpg123 packages. 
> Other than that it's completely clean.  It's being installed on a
> partition with loads of space available to it and the install is
> being run as root.      
> 
> Can anyone tell from that error if I'm missing something or what the
> problem may be? 
> 
> Thanks a bunch

Yep, you need bison