From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jan 31 14: 8: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B9C1150B3 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:07:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA64991; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:07:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA34751; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:07:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:07:54 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Marcin Cieslak Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bison and -current Message-ID: <20000131140754.A34520@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from saper@system.pl on Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 06:14:49PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 06:14:49PM +0100, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > ``For a complete build from scratch, you need GNU flex and bison > (other lex/yacc implementation do not work), though generated scanner > and parser C files are also included.'' GNU feh! Flex is really BSD flex developed by Vern Paxson at LBL (Berkeley). Bison is a rip off of Robert Corbett's Byacc (which was donated to BSD/CSRG) where they originally added a small bit if functionality and relicensed the whole thing under the GPV (which I hear upset him). That said, please try the base lex & flex; you will probably find they will work just fine for this port. > How one can check quickly whether the application > actually needs GNU bison features? If byacc will generate a parser file that is compilable, then you don't need Bison. Or you can just touch the *.[ch] files generated from the .y file to make the Makefile think a regeneration is not needed. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message