I'm not quite following all those bug reports. When you say "build Bison
from source", do you mean "build from the latest release tarball", or
"build from Git"? I suspect you mean the latter, but if so you'll likely
have more hassle. Why is the latter needed?
As far as building from Git goes, the gist seems to be that there's a
recent Gnulib change that Bison needs. To work around that problem, I
updated Bison to use the current Gnulib on Savannah, so if you're
building from Git you can build from that.
Please try to separate any Gnulib bugs (which you should be able to
reproduce via "./gnulib-tool --test MODULENAME" in Gnulib) from Bison
bugs. That way, Gnulib maintainers won't be bothered by Bison bugs and
vice versa.