Date: 19 Jan 2000 09:51:31 -0800 From: asami@FreeBSD.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: USE_BISON Message-ID: <vqcr9fekl0b.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: "David O'Brien"'s message of "Wed, 19 Jan 2000 09:27:27 -0800" References: <200001191609.IAA05299@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <20000119092727.A65004@dragon.nuxi.com>
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* I am *quite* surprised at the need for this. Bison *cannot* be depended
* on by GNU software as they must build on Solaris, HP-UX, etc...
But many of them depend on gmake, don't they? Why do you think bison
is so special?
* Maybe a
* closer look at the problem is in order. I don't know of any GNU autoconf
* scripts that don't test for `yacc' if `bison' is not installed.
What about those that don't use autoconf?
* > bc-gcc-2.7.2p1.0.2.log:bison: not found
*
* This one *really* surprises me as I know it uses GNU autoconf. An error
* in the building I would believe, but not in the configuring. I have a
* feeling there is something else going on.
I don't know about that one but I took a look at gnats. It dies in
the gnats/ subdirectory. The subdirectory's Makefile has
"BISON=byacc", but for some reason it's passing "BISON=bison" from the
parent make and that's why it's trying to run bison.
If I go in the gnats/ subdirectory and type gmake, this is what I get.
===
## gmake
expect 10 shift/reduce conflicts
byacc ./getdate.y -o getdate.c
usage: yacc [-dlrtv] [-b file_prefix] [-o output_filename]
[-p symbol_prefix] filename
gmake: *** [getdate.c] Error 1
===
Whatever. I'd rather just supply bison than waste our time fixing
them all. ;)
Satoshi
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