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
