# RE: Problem compiling bro 0.4 on RedHat Linux 5.2

**URL:** https://community.zeek.org/t/re-problem-compiling-bro-0-4-on-redhat-linux-5-2/43
**Category:** Zeek
**Created:** [December 23, 1998, 2:20pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/re-problem-compiling-bro-0-4-on-redhat-linux-5-2/43 "1998-12-23T14:20:38Z")
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### Author: ![Verstraete\_Patrick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/898d66/32.png) [@Verstraete\_Patrick](https://community.zeek.org/u/Verstraete_Patrick)
#### Post date: [December 23, 1998, 2:20pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/re-problem-compiling-bro-0-4-on-redhat-linux-5-2/43/1 "1998-12-23T14:20:38Z")

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Hi y'all,

Mike, I think the easiest thing to do is to download version 0.5 including a  
(nice) port to Linux.

I've installed bro (version 0.5a) on linux and on solaris machines  
Here follows some feedback about problems I've encountered.

1) the files doc/\* are not installed in /usr/local/directory when using  
"make install"

2) directory /usr/local/bro should first be created before using "make  
install" (otherwise he copy all files to the file /usr/local/bro)

3) on Solaris 2.5.1, yacc doesn't want to compile parse.y  
A workaround was to install bison.

yacc -dtv parse.y  
"parse.y", line 396: fatal: illegal rule: missing semicolon or | ?  
\*\*\* Error code 1

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2022, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/re-problem-compiling-bro-0-4-on-redhat-linux-5-2/43/2 "2022-05-06T15:36:05Z")

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