On 11/10/15 13:00, 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, >
Failed to build for me... devel/help2man needs adding to BDEP.
