Re: gEDA-user: Icarus snapshot 20040606 on Solaris

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>]

On Jul 30, 2004, at 12:31 PM, Stephen Williams wrote:
> | I've seen a lot of notes about troubles with different versions of
> | Bison, but as best as I can tell, I have the desired version.  It 
> would
> | be nice if the configure script would check bison versions if it is
> | going to be so picky.
>
> bison has been a consistent source of irritation/entertainment
> as every few months they seem to change the argument meanings.
> I'm tempted to just include premade bison output in the snapshot
> tarball and be done with it. Hmm...
  A lot of packages do exactly that.

  But, I'm forced to wonder...why not just use standard yacc mode 
("bison -y")?  It's portable, it's supported *everywhere*, and it Just 
Works(tm).

           -Dave

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