Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: CVS Bug? or User error?

[Derek Robert Price]

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Paul Eggert wrote:

>>you are saying that a working yacc installation is more common tool
>>than a working Autotool installation?
>
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>Yes, I think so.
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>>Common enough to consider a broken yacc user error?
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>Sure, but the problem here is something different: it's that getdate.y
>is relying on GNU extensions.  Even if someone has a working yacc, it
>might not work with getdate.y.  Removing getdate.y's GNU extensions
>would be unpalatable for some distributions, as it would cause
>getdate.c to become non-reentrant.


Actually, it's not.  We haven't distributed the newest getdate.y with
CVS yet due to its current overpermissiveness.  This report came from
a user attempting to compile a very old version of getdate.y that
doesn't use GNU extensions, as far as I know.  It's been distributed
with CVS for a long time and never required Bison before...

Derek

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