java parser intentionally in builddir?

[Robert Lipe]

Per Bothner wrote:

> What is going on is that in the Cygnus internal source tree:
> (a) the bison-generated files are not in the source tree, and
> (b) they are generated into build directory, not $srcdir.

It therefore sounds like you're well of the situation as well the costs
and benefits.  It struck me as "different" and it sounds like that's
intentional.  I was unsure if this was intentional behaviour.


> Personally, I think it is a bad idea to include bison-generated
> files in the respository.  I think it is reasonable to require
> bison for people who want to build from cvs archives.  Note that

The reason this caught my attention is that I build on a handful of
hosts for a handful of targets.  Only one host has all the funky tools
required for EGCS snapshot building.  This was fine until this change
in Java was made.  Now I either have to have bison everywhere or "fix"
java/Makefile.in.

Now that I know a conscious decision is being made instead of just a
Makefile mishap, I'll defer completely to whatever you and the crew
decides.

RJL