On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Brett Cundal wrote: > I'm working on a package that includes a .tab.c file generated by > bison...
> So, what's wrong with this picture? Should I build-depend on bison and > generate the file in the build target, or should I modify the makefile > to not delete the generated file? Both seem ugly to me. Is there > something else I should do? Usually, you don't delete bison generated files on distclean, because you might be compiling on a system that doesn't have bison installed. So removing the rule that deletes it (and sending the patch upstream) looks best to me. Simon -- GPG public key available from http://phobos.fs.tum.de/pgp/Simon.Richter.asc Fingerprint: DC26 EB8D 1F35 4F44 2934 7583 DBB6 F98D 9198 3292 Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
