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
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