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Date:      Fri, 31 May 1996 09:25:20 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
To:        "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: yacc rules break many things
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.91.960531092252.24415B-100000@professor.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199605311003.MAA24073@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

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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.

> 
> --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
> 

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