From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 28 22:42:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA18571 for current-outgoing; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 22:42:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr08.primenet.com (tlambert@usr08.primenet.com [206.165.6.208]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA18561 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 22:42:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA16510; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 22:42:01 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199709290542.WAA16510@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Suggestions on some make rules as far as the -o option is concerned To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 05:42:00 +0000 (GMT) Cc: dapor@nessie.inf.ethz.ch, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at Sep 28, 97 11:37:07 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > In attempt to make world the success was always broken when some > > file had to be build by bison. > > The command line looked like > > bison -d /some/directory/where/the/dot-y-files-lies/file.y -o foo.c > > Excuse me, why are you using bison, instead of the native yacc that's in > FreeBSD? I don't think anyone is going to make changes to support this. Because the new gcc has some makefile and .y file changes that make it un-yacc'able. If I were paranoid, I'd accuse them of wanting to force installation of BISON on more machines... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.