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Re: gEDA-user: Icarus snapshot 20040606 on Solaris



On Jul 30, 2004, at 12:39 PM, Stephen Williams wrote:
|> 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).

The gentleman has a good point.
It was actually Joshua's idea; we were discussing it privately last night.

-Dave

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