HAIKU OS

[cybermonkey]

Hi, I tried to use bacon on Haiku. Bacon itself seems to work but gcc (which is version 2.95) fails to compile the converted code:
~/Downloads> ./bacon.bash hello.bac
Starting conversion... done.  
Starting compilation... Compiler emits messages!

/boot/home/Downloads/hello.bac.h: In function `__b2c__instr':
In file included from /boot/home/Downloads/hello.bac.c:2:
/boot/home/Downloads/hello.bac.h:139: syntax error before `__b2c__ap'
/boot/home/Downloads/hello.bac.h:140: `__b2c__ap' undeclared (first use in this function)
/boot/home/Downloads/hello.bac.h:140: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/boot/home/Downloads/hello.bac.h:140: for each function it appears in.)
/boot/home/Downloads/hello.bac.h: In function `__b2c__instrrev':
/boot/home/Downloads/hello.bac.h:146: syntax error before `__b2c__ap'
/boot/home/Downloads/hello.bac.h:147: `__b2c__ap' undeclared (first use in this function)

[Pjot]

Hi,

I guess this is caused by the BASH version they ship. We have seen similar problems before with certain Linux distributions. As mentioned on the BaCon website, BASH version 4 or higher is required.

Can you show which version of BASH you are using? Run 'bash --version' and it will show a version number.

If it is a 3.x version then indeed it will not work. Instead, try the Kornshell implementation which works with all KSH versions.

Thanks,
Peter