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Re: [Configure patch] Issue error if bison not found
On Nov 28, 2002, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@attbi.com> wrote:
> With my patch, configure will bomb and issue a useful error message
> saying that bison is missing.
Which is wrong. Nobody needs bison to build a GCC release. It's only
CVS check outs that don't necessarily have the bison-generated files
up-to-date.
> With your patch, configure will generate a Makefile with:
> BISON=missing bison
You need something more like
${CONFIG_SHELL} ${srcdir}/../missing bison
for the default value of bison.
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