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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)


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