Re: Bison data files

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Jeffrey,

> Gettext has a configure option --with-bison-prefix=.

It is used to indicate where, at runtime, the bison-runtime's .mo files
can be found.

> Is it possible to generate the Bison data files offline and provide
> them in the tarball? Kind of like what happens with Yacc parsers?

This would lead to a duplication of these .mo files. There are multiple
packages that use Bison and thus can make use of these .mo files. It would
be a waste of disk space on the end-user's disk if they were installed
in multiple places.

> I guess what I am asking is, are they machine independent data files?

Yes.

> The reason I am asking is, I'd like to reduce the requirements on
> building GetText.

You can also build and install Bison after having installed gettext.

Bruno