Re: Patch Makefile.in/Make-lang.in: create bison files atomically

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>]

On Oct 17, 2000, Marc Espie <espie@quatramaran.ens.fr> wrote:

> In article <orsnpwxba1.fsf@guarana.lsd.ic.unicamp.br> you write:
>> On Oct 17, 2000, Marc Espie <espie@quatramaran.ens.fr> wrote:

>>> No reason *not to support yacc*, when it works (and byacc does).

>> Did you ever try to build GCJ with yacc or byacc?  AFAIK, at least
>> GCJ's grammar requires bison.
>> 
>>> I spend enough time tracking irrelevant bison in autoconf output

> I believe that you could *at least* read my mails in full and not cut 
> them at a place that make me look like a moron.

I didn't mean to do it, sorry.  I wrote that before reading the
paragraph in which you mentioned that need.  I should probably have
deleted after reading it, but I didn't, and I apologize for having
made you feel looking like a moron.

> I'm perfectly aware of java's actual needs for bison, and I did mention
> it in the fragment you so conveniently cut.

It was convenient, indeed, but not for the purpose you think.  I just
didn't think it was worth cutting the paragraph I had already written,
so I ``conveniently'' failed to delete it :-)

Cool down, man!  I don't mean to offend you, or anybody else :-)
Peace!  We've already had enough of a flame-war here this week, let's
not start another :-)

> Note that changing BISON to something else is simply a matter of supplying
> a site x-fragment, which is not yet forbidden, thanks god.

Good point.  But then, if you don't use bison, you don't get GCJ.  But
I guess some people are willing to live with that... ;-)

Anyway, point taken, we shouldn't introduce additional dependencies
upon bison just because we can.  As you have dutifully shown, we don't
really depend on bison, except for GCJ, so we'd better avoid
introducing further dependencies.

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