Re: Use of bison

[Francesco Montorsi]

Eric Blake wrote:
> Hmmm.  m4/getdate.m4 does AC_REQUIRE([gl_BISON]), but m4/bison.m4 DOES
> blindly use 'bison -y' rather than 'missing bison -y'.  Maybe bison.m4
> should be updated to better check for a new enough bison, perhaps building
> on autoconf's AC_PROG_YACC or AC_PATH_PROG.
maybe a bug report to
   gmane.comp.parsers.bison.bugs
should be created ?


> As for building coreutils, if you pick up a distribution such as 5.93,
> bison should not be necessary (GNU coding standards require that source
> distributions include the pre-compiled getdate.c along with the source
> getdate.y); in a distro, bison is only needed if you touch getdate.y.  But
> when building from CVS, projects are free to assume that you have more
> development tools on hand, such as a new enough bison; because CVS does
> not include generated tools when the developer can be reasonable expected
> to regenerate the files himself.
sure I understand; in fact it was not a great problem after all (an apt-get install bison 
solved it nicely); I reported it just to let you know...

Francesco