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Re: odd bootstrap fail on Solaris (3.1 branch): bad Makefile generated


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 fine, but if the file is out of date the user will get a hint as to what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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