Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 15:57:16 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: yacc rules break many things Message-ID: <199605311357.PAA24778@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960531092252.24415B-100000@professor.eng.umd.edu>
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> On Fri, 31 May 1996, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
>
> > /usr/src/lib/libform
> >
> > was the next stopper. Something seems to have changed in the yacc
> > rules. The sources always rely on y.tab.h being present
> > but the -b prefix switch changes that to <prefix>.tab.h.
> > I hand fixed it by adding a line
> >
> > cp ${.PREFIX}.tab.h y.tab.h
> >
> > in the sys.mk .y.o: rule but this is surely only a temporary hack
> > since it leaves both header files and the clean target might not know
> > about it.
> >
> > Or am I totally off?
>
> There was a warning from PHK about the fact that he was changing the yacc
> rules, and this would break a lot of things in the tree. He's been
> making commits to fix it; don't you see them? Among the problems he
> mentioned in that y.tab.h would be changing names.
I could have easily overlooked it if it had not been announced
as Subject: WARNING!! changing yacc rules will break world build for a
couple of days now. or some such. Sorry that it escaped me.
>
> >
> > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
> >
>
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