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.


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