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Re: Configuration/Makefile cleanups
>>>>> "Zack" == Zack Weinberg <zackw@Stanford.EDU> writes:
Zack> I'm not going to make a huge fuss over this, though. I can
Zack> easily change the patch to do as you suggest. But I would
Zack> like to hear from the *BSD people who currently hack up the
Zack> makefile so byacc is used, first.
I am unsympathetic to users of byacc. Bison is very portable, and is
the standard GNU parser-generator. That's what we should use.
Because we will include the generated files with releases, this issue
only affects GCC developers. I do not think we should complicate our
build process in order to save them downloading this tool; there are
lots of tools that you need to be a GCC developer, and bison is one of
them.
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