From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 24 09:51:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA25362 for current-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 09:51:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA25316 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 09:51:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com by agora.rdrop.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #17) id m0v5ahZ-0008xmC; Tue, 24 Sep 96 09:51 PDT Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA07229; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:36:15 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:36:15 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199609241636.KAA07229@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: Warner Losh Cc: Nate Williams , sef@kithrup.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install on {Net,Open}BSD vs install on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199609241628.KAA06509@rover.village.org> References: <199609241614.KAA07100@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199609241537.JAA06948@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199609241512.JAA06843@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199609230506.PAA05354@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199609241441.IAA05913@rover.village.org> <199609241530.JAA06226@rover.village.org> <199609241607.KAA06394@rover.village.org> <199609241628.KAA06509@rover.village.org> Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > : 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