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Re: bison-1.875: installation as yacc
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Nelson H. F. Beebe |
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Re: bison-1.875: installation as yacc |
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Fri, 3 Jan 2003 18:30:02 -0700 (MST) |
In response to my complaint about bison-1.875 being installed in
$(prefix)/bin also as yacc,masking (or clobbering) an existing one,
>> ...
>> > Incidentally, I view it a very bad idea to install bison under the
>> > name yacc as well: that masks access to the native yacc when that may
>> > be what the user intended.
>> ...
Paul Eggert wrote:
>> ...
>> That was for POSIX conformance, which is becoming more of an issue
>> these days.
>>
>> How about if we add a --disable-yacc option to "configure"? It could
>> disable the installation of the "yacc" command, and it could also
>> disable the (relatively useless) -ly library that is required by
>> POSIX.
>> ...
That's the right direction, but I'd like the default to be to not
install a yacc command: that is, require --enable-yacc to get such an
installation. However, I can live with the other choice as long as I
know about it in advance.
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