# Thrift fails to build in Ubuntu 16.04

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/thrift-fails-to-build-in-ubuntu-16-04/8563>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [January 24, 2018, 3:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/thrift-fails-to-build-in-ubuntu-16-04/8563 "2018-01-24T15:54:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ian\_Watson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ian_watson/32/29419_2.png) [@Ian\_Watson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ian_Watson)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 3:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/thrift-fails-to-build-in-ubuntu-16-04/8563/1 "2018-01-24T15:54:18Z")

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The commands

```julia
Pkg.init()
Pkg.add("Thrift")

```

fail with the error message

```julia
Making install in src
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/ian/.julia/v0.6/Thrift/deps/src/thrift-0.11.0/compiler/cpp/src'
/bin/bash ../../../ylwrap thrift/thrifty.yy y.tab.c thrift/thrifty.cc y.tab.h `echo thrift/thrifty.cc | sed -e s/cc$/hh/ -e s/cpp$/hpp/ -e s/cxx$/hxx/ -e s/c++$/h++/ -e s/c$/h/` y.output thrift/thrifty.output -- byacc -d 
byacc: e - line 1 of "/home/ian/.julia/v0.6/Thrift/deps/src/thrift-0.11.0/compiler/cpp/src/thrift/thrifty.yy", syntax error
%code requires {
^
Makefile:915: recipe for target 'thrift/thrifty.cc' failed

```

On the same computer I can download thrift and build it with no problems, although the problematic step above seems not to be executed.

Any ideas?

Thanks

ian

```julia
julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 0.6.2
Commit d386e40 (2017-12-13 18:08 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Linux (x86_64-linux-gnu)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  BLAS: libopenblas (USE64BITINT DYNAMIC_ARCH NO_AFFINITY Haswell)
  LAPACK: libopenblas64_
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-3.9.1 (ORCJIT, skylake)

```