iasl refuses to compile

Yes - yet another instance.
The output of the makefile is as follows:

simon@infrared:~/custom/acpica-unix-20050930/compiler$ make
conflicts: 61 shift/reduce, 18 reduce/reduce
aslcompiler.y:915.7-81: warning: rule never reduced because of
conflicts: TermArg: Type2IntegerOpcode
aslcompiler.y:916.7-81: warning: rule never reduced because of
conflicts: TermArg: Type2StringOpcode
aslcompiler.y:917.7-81: warning: rule never reduced because of
conflicts: TermArg: Type2BufferOpcode
aslcompiler.y:918.7-81: warning: rule never reduced because of
conflicts: TermArg: Type2BufferOrStringOpcode
aslcompiler.y:964.7-82: warning: rule never reduced because of
conflicts: OptionalParameterTypePackage: ','
aslcompiler.y:983.37-48: warning: rule never reduced because of
conflicts: ParameterTypesPackageList: /* empty */
aslcompiler.y:984.7-46: warning: rule never reduced because of
conflicts: ParameterTypesPackageList: ObjectTypeKeyword
aslcompiler.y:988.7-989.69: warning: rule never reduced because of
conflicts: ParameterTypesPackageList: ParameterTypesPackage ','
ParameterTypesPackage
aslcompiler.y:994.7-82: warning: rule never reduced because of
conflicts: OptionalParameterTypesPackage: ','
aslcompiler.y:1585.7-38: warning: rule never reduced because of
conflicts: CaseTermList: CaseTerm
aslcompiler.y:1594.7-38: warning: rule never reduced because of
conflicts: DefaultTermList: CaseTerm
aslcompiler.y:3077.37-48: warning: rule never reduced because of
conflicts: OptionalResourceType: /* empty */
aslcompilerlex.c: In function ‘AslCompiler_init_buffer’:
aslcompilerlex.c:3641: warning: implicit declaration of function
‘fileno’
aslcompiler.l: In function ‘comment’:
aslcompiler.l:847: error: ‘yytext_ptr’ undeclared (first use in this
function)
aslcompiler.l:847: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only
once
aslcompiler.l:847: error: for each function it appears in.)
make: *** [aslcompilerlex.o] Error 1
simon@infrared:~/custom/acpica-unix-20050930/compiler$ less iaslmake.txt
simon@infrared:~/custom/acpica-unix-20050930/compiler$ rm iaslmake.txt
simon@infrared:~/custom/acpica-unix-20050930/compiler$

Normally I'd suspect missing kernel headers or source but both are installed on this system. Library missing? I've been puzzling through the archive and many similar topics there only to be frustrated when the poor user finally discloses the nature of the problem, or dosn't do so and post "hey I solved this now thanks" later, also with no explaination.

Downloaded the intel ASL compiler/decompiler from
http://developer.intel.com/technolo...i/downloads.htm

... selected the unix tarball (acpica-unix-20050930.tar.gz) and followed the instructions in the readme and the intel site. I had to install bison, flex, kernel headers and sources - which I did via apt-get for bison and flex, and synaptic for the headers and sources.

You can see I've enabled the -ansi flag (readme specified an ansi c compiler), but I get much the same output without it (warning instead of conflicts and the same errors.) I have been wondering about the likelyhood of errors in the code - I doubted it only to find in the archive to this list that it has happened ... perhaps running a debug tool? Man I havn't used C since djgpp in dos 6.

The system is:
Ubuntu 5.10, fully updated - std repos enabled, inlcl. multiverse. kernel 2.6.12-9-686
gcc (GCC) 4.0.2 20050808 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.0.1-4ubuntu9) g++ (GCC) 4.0.2 20050808 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.0.1-4ubuntu9) bison (GNU Bison) 2.0
flex 2.5.31

I've also posted this question to:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=384570

Thanks in advance.

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hello Simon..

try installing flex-old. i just did it and it compild fine under my Debian testing. did you read
http://acpi.sourceforge.net/download.html?

cheers,
Sebastian

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Heh, there are also debian packages available if you prefer :)
http://packages.debian.org/iasl
iasl is built from the acpica-unix source package.

mattia
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