On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 05:22:06PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 02:00:19PM +0100, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > it's been a few years that our bison port hasn't been updated, the main
> > reason being that our m4 doesn't groke some of the constructs used by
> > newer bison releases.  More and more packages out there require a recent
> > bison version.  As an OpenBSD developer, I don't think that building
> > parsers using a recent bison on another OS is a valid answer to that
> > problem.
> > 
> > Yet, nobody found the time and motivation to implement the features /
> > fix the bugs in m4.
> > 
> > Here's my proposal: update bison to the latest version and make it use
> > devel/m4 (GNU m4).  *Then* *if* someone wants to make the efforts
> > required for bison to use base m4, that would be awesome.
> > 
> > Sorry if this sounds blunt, but this is the only way forward I can see.
> > 
> > I'll be available later today to discuss this further if needed.
> > 
> > Diff below,
> 
> You have my full support.

Since this port has no declared maintainer, yes please.

Landry

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