-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Francesco Montorsi on 12/27/2005 11:42 AM: > > PS: I've recently installed SuSE and I've found that the configure > script of coreutils > doesn't check for 'bison' presence: on that distro, it was missing and > it gave me problems > later with "make". I think adding a check for 'bison' would be nice...
Hmmm. m4/getdate.m4 does AC_REQUIRE([gl_BISON]), but m4/bison.m4 DOES blindly use 'bison -y' rather than 'missing bison -y'. Maybe bison.m4 should be updated to better check for a new enough bison, perhaps building on autoconf's AC_PROG_YACC or AC_PATH_PROG. As for building coreutils, if you pick up a distribution such as 5.93, bison should not be necessary (GNU coding standards require that source distributions include the pre-compiled getdate.c along with the source getdate.y); in a distro, bison is only needed if you touch getdate.y. But when building from CVS, projects are free to assume that you have more development tools on hand, such as a new enough bison; because CVS does not include generated tools when the developer can be reasonable expected to regenerate the files himself. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDs+mt84KuGfSFAYARAn4TAJ9/R8NvKwFsHclUTLqD6ZGhyoSp0gCfeOxI TiaV/3c+huv2ZN9rfDADusE= =iRJS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ bug-gnulib mailing list bug-gnulib@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnulib
