Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:31:14 -0800 From: Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com, bug-bison@gnu.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portability fix for bison-1.75 Message-ID: <87u0bymq7x.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060120211940.GA43031@xor.obsecurity.org> (Kris Kennaway's message of "Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:19:41 -0500") References: <200601131825.SAA21164@sopwith.solgatos.com> <87r772obn8.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <20060120211940.GA43031@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes: > Unfortunately there is a lot of software that cannot be used as-is > with the newer version. This seems to be because the newer versions > of bison are not backwards-compatible, which is irritating to say the > least. That's news to me. Has anyone filed a bug report about these irritating backward-compatibility issues to <bug-bison@gnu.org>? Possibly the backward-compatibility problems, whatever they were, have already been fixed. In that case I'd still recommend that people not use 1.75, as it has some real bugs.
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