Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:36:15 -0600 (MDT)
From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, sef@kithrup.com, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: install on {Net,Open}BSD vs install on FreeBSD
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> : Other software use bison, so we provided bison 'AS A PORT'. Other > : software required GNU-make, so we provide it 'AS A PORT'. The > : functionality exists for 'external' programs to easily get the > : functionality they need via 'externally' added programs. > > Bison is in /usr/src/contrib now. It is needed to build the tree. Actually, unless Cygnus changed their ways they used byacc instead of bison for doing all of the gcc development and testing. In the past the Cygnus folks made sure that the parser worked under byacc fine, and then when the FSF version was released the build tools changed back to using bison again by RMS & friends. I used to know someone who worked for Cygnus, but he quit to get a better job and now he's hacking DOSCMD stuff. However, he might be able to find out if byacc is still the primary 'yaccer' for Cygnus internally. But, that's really irrelevant to the topic at hand. Nate
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