Comment 8 for bug 1373362

Hi Peter,

thanks for the hints! Indeed there was an outdated version of iasl on my system, which I have manually installed in /usr/local/bin many years ago... (on both machines, on the gentoo as well as the kubuntu box) - sorry for that!!!

That produced an error message during build (see below), but for some reason the make system did not recognize that and continued with broken files (not only here, all other files were affected too).

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iasl -vs -l -tc -p q35-acpi-dsdt q35-acpi-dsdt.dsl.i 2>&1
q35-acpi-dsdt.dsl.i 48: If (LEqual(Arg0, ToUUID("33DB4D5B-1FF7-401C-9657-7441C03DD766"))) {
Error 1037 - ^ syntax error, unexpected PARSEOP_NAMESEG, expecting ')'

q35-acpi-dsdt.dsl.i 61: } Else {
Error 1037 - ^ syntax error, unexpected PARSEOP_ELSE

ASL Input: q35-acpi-dsdt.dsl.i - 308 lines, 22112 bytes, 47 keywords
Compilation complete. 2 Errors, 0 Warnings, 0 Remarks, 5 Optimizations
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The bad old version of iasl that produced the trouble was:
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Intel ACPI Component Architecture
ASL Optimizing Compiler / AML Disassembler version 20040715 [Oct 11 2004]
Copyright (C) 2000 - 2004 Intel Corporation
Supports ACPI Specification Revision 2.0c
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Now I checked with iasl-20130117-32 (Gentoo) and iasl-20140214-64 (Kubuntu), both worked fine and both understand the command line parameter "-v" to get their version (which is not the case for the old one). Maybe it is worth writing some version check in the configure script ?

IMO we can close this bug.

thanks a lot for your help,
   Thomas