From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 28 17:10:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rebel.net.au (rebel.rebel.net.au [203.20.69.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CD5A154EC for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 17:10:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kkenn@rebel.net.au) Received: from 203.20.69.78 (dialup-8.rebel.net.au [203.20.69.78]) by rebel.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA13227 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 09:39:32 +0930 Received: (qmail 2648 invoked from network); 29 Jul 1999 00:09:23 -0000 Received: from localhost (kkenn@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 29 Jul 1999 00:09:23 -0000 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 09:39:23 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway Reply-To: kkenn@rebel.net.au To: Oscar Bonilla Cc: Vadim Chekan , "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Bison update request In-Reply-To: <19990728121656.C420@fisicc-ufm.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Oscar Bonilla wrote: > > Which version of bison is there in Current? > > In 3.2-release it's 1.25 which is dated 1995! > > It's buggy. What about update to bison-1.28? > > For what I've read in -current it seems bison is on its way out. > better use yacc. > > (i might be wrong :) This was stated the other day by David O'Brien as his intention, so it may not be wise to depend on bison being in current forever. However, there's a port at /usr/ports/devel/bison which is currently at 1.27, and could be upgraded to 1.28 either by politely requesting so from the maintainer (wghicks@bellsouth.net) or by send-PRing your own patches :-) Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message