Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 10:16:32 +0300 From: Vadim Chekan <vadim@gc.lviv.ua> To: "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Bison update request Message-ID: <379FFFCF.992175D0@gc.lviv.ua> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907290937210.1431-100000@morden.rebel.net.au>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Oscar Bonilla wrote: > > > > Which version of bison is there in Current? > > > In 3.2-release it's 1.25 which is dated 1995! > > > It's buggy. What about update to bison-1.28? > > > > For what I've read in -current it seems bison is on its way out. > > better use yacc. > > > > (i might be wrong :) > > This was stated the other day by David O'Brien as his intention, so it may > not be wise to depend on bison being in current forever. However, there's Did I miss somesing? Why Bison is bad and is there anyting better (and free)? > a port at /usr/ports/devel/bison which is currently at 1.27, and could be > upgraded to 1.28 either by politely requesting so from the maintainer > (wghicks@bellsouth.net) or by send-PRing your own patches :-) Yes, I installed this port. But I still can't understand why stable have got old and buggy bison if there's the new one without known errors. It worthed to me a lot of time to find bug in "bison.simple" template. Only then I started to looking for a recent version. Vadim Chekan. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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