Sieve script parse error problem

[Ken Murchison]

Andreas Haumer wrote:
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> Hi!
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> Another followup to my own mail, as I now have additional
> information.
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> Andreas Haumer schrieb:
>> Hi!
>>
>> As after two weeks I haven't got a single reply to my problem report
>> and I'm still hunting this problem I would like to bring up the issue
>> again.
>>
>> I would like to add that I have sieve working fine on other installations
>> with both cyrus-imapd-2.2.8 and cyrus-imapd-2.2.10.
>>
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>> But with cyrus-imapd-2.2.12 I can't get sieve to work as I always
>> get the error mentioned below.
>>
> 
> Comparing the differences between those systems I found
> that on the installations with a working cyrus-imapd I
> used bison-1.34 to compile the package (e.g. translate
> the sieve.y file) whereas with the newer cyrus-imapd-2.2.12
> I also used the newer bison-2.1 to compile the package
> 
> I just tried to compile timsieved from cyrus-imapd-2.2.12
> without re-creating sieve.c and sieve.h from sieve.y (by
> touching sieve.c and sieve.h before running make) and
> this gave me a timsieved binary which actually accepts
> my small testing sieve script without complaints!
> 
> So it currently looks like the reason for the problems I
> see is an incompatibility between sieve.y and the newer
> bison!
> 
> For now I think I can live with this workaround (touch
> the sieve.[ch] files provided by the cyrus-imapd source
> package) but I guess someone has to look at the sieve.y
> file to see what this incompatibility might be (or perhaps
> it's even a bug in bison?)
> 
> Any comments?

I've never tried using any of the Bison 2.x code with Cyrus, and I'm not 
sure that anyone else at CMU has either.


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Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Carnegie Mellon University