> On 22 May 2019, at 15:31, Erik Faye-Lund <erik.faye-l...@collabora.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 2019-05-22 at 15:21 +0200, Hans Åberg wrote: >> >> One can set the distribution so that the Bison sources are only re- >> compiled if modified. > > This would only work for tarballs, though, no?
That is what I have in mind. > Otherwise we'd need to > commit the generated files, which is tricky because the location > depends on where the build-dir is located, and would probably not play > well with different developers having different versions, leading to > variance in the generated result. > > I don't really think this would work for us in Mesa. We no longer > generate the distribution using autotools since we switched to Meson, > we just do git archive these days. Bison itself does not have any of that in the archive, I think. One does: # Getting branch 'maint' form archive: git clone -b maint https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/bison.git # Then, cf. file README-hacking: cd bison/ git submodule update --init ./bootstrap ./configure make make check git diff _______________________________________________ help-bison@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-bison
