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Re: [Configure patch] Issue error if bison not found

On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 06:19:37AM +0000, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 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.

Well, I just tried to do a bootstrap with the gcc-3.2.1.tar.gz
release and it did not work without bison.

-- 
Craig Rodrigues        
http://www.gis.net/~craigr    
rodrigc@attbi.com
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