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Re: odd bootstrap fail on Solaris (3.1 branch): bad Makefile generated
- From: Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>
- To: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 15:32:10 -0500
- Subject: Re: odd bootstrap fail on Solaris (3.1 branch): bad Makefile generated
- References: <200203181948.LAA26913@atrus.synopsys.com>
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:48:18AM -0800, Joe Buck wrote:
>
> If the final distribution contains the output files gcc/intl/plural.c etc,
> this won't be a problem. Is that the plan? We aren't supposed to require
> bison for folks who just use the release.
That's the plan.
> As an alternative, rather than generating a colon in this case (so that
> the command is a comment, it could generate a string like
>
> sorry_your_bison_version_is_too_old
>
> as the value of YACC. Then if the command is not needed, everything is
> fine, but if the file is out of date the user will get a hint as to what
> the problem is.
Ah, that would be nice.
As to your other comment: I get unsubstituted @foo@'s all the time,
and have mentioned them on the lists, but they never elicit a response.
Apparently it's not a serious problem...?
Phil
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