From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 29 4:38:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB1A714D5F for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 04:38:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dispatch@blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from dispatch@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA24115; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 07:37:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dispatch) From: Dispatcher Message-Id: <199907291137.HAA24115@blackhelicopters.org> Subject: Re: Bison update request In-Reply-To: <379FFFCF.992175D0@gc.lviv.ua> from Vadim Chekan at "Jul 29, 1999 10:16:32 am" To: vadim@gc.lviv.ua (Vadim Chekan) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 07:37:27 -0400 (EDT) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Vadim, Bison was used to support gcc, which is the compiler used in 3.x. The version of gcc 3.2 uses is also old, so we need a matching bison. -current uses egcs. We can easily use yacc with it, with only a few changes. The motivation is: Yacc has a BSD license, while Bison has a GNU license. ==ml [Charset koi8-r unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > 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 > > Did I miss somesing? Why Bison is bad and is there anyting better (and > free)? > > > 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 :-) > > Yes, I installed this port. But I still can't understand why stable have > got old and buggy bison if there's the new one without known errors. It > worthed to me a lot of time to find bug in "bison.simple" template. Only > then I started to looking for a recent version. > > Vadim Chekan. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message