Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 09:59:55 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: USE_BISON Message-ID: <20000119095955.R67844@relay.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <vqcr9fekl0b.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> References: <200001191609.IAA05299@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <20000119092727.A65004@dragon.nuxi.com> <vqcr9fekl0b.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 09:51:31AM -0800, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > * 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? GNU make supports a rather different syntax than BSD make for non-trival Makefiles. Bison simply has a few minor extension that most don't use. Other than the one you've shown below of course.... > === > ## 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 > === Options should come *before* input filenames. This is UNIX, not VMS, not MS-CRAP. Of course to expect GNU software to realize this is.... well we all know. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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