On 08/26/2010 07:12 PM, Chris Long wrote: > "The `Yet Another C Compiler' implementation to use." YACC > actually stands for"Yet Another Compiler Compiler."
Thanks for reporting that. I fixed it as follows: >From 550c648c10df17e261144808169433742a0d8610 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:21:01 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] AC_PROG_YACC: fix comment re what "yacc" stands for * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_YACC): YACC stands for "Yet Another Compiler Compiler", not "Yet Another C Compiler". Problem reported by Chris Long in <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2010-08/msg00134.html>. --- ChangeLog | 8 ++++++++ lib/autoconf/programs.m4 | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 6accc2f..8ddf026 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +2010-08-29 Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> + + AC_PROG_YACC: fix comment re what "yacc" stands for + * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_YACC): YACC stands for + "Yet Another Compiler Compiler", not "Yet Another C Compiler". + Problem reported by Chris Long in + <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2010-08/msg00134.html>. + 2010-08-27 Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> Avoid long lines in testsuite script. diff --git a/lib/autoconf/programs.m4 b/lib/autoconf/programs.m4 index e7eeb6f..c90d9b2 100644 --- a/lib/autoconf/programs.m4 +++ b/lib/autoconf/programs.m4 @@ -895,8 +895,8 @@ AN_PROGRAM([bison], [AC_PROG_YACC]) AC_DEFUN([AC_PROG_YACC], [AC_CHECK_PROGS(YACC, 'bison -y' byacc, yacc)dnl AC_ARG_VAR(YACC, -[The `Yet Another C Compiler' implementation to use. Defaults to the first -program found out of: `bison -y', `byacc', `yacc'.])dnl +[The `Yet Another Compiler Compiler' implementation to use. Defaults to +the first program found out of: `bison -y', `byacc', `yacc'.])dnl AC_ARG_VAR(YFLAGS, [The list of arguments that will be passed by default to $YACC. This script will default YFLAGS to the empty string to avoid a default value of `-d' given -- 1.7.2
