Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]

[Kaveh R. Ghazi]

 > More so than any Gmake concerns, the BSD's need the basic languages:
 > C/C++/FORTRAN to be buildable with YACC rather than Bison.  I know
 > Java requires Bison, and that is fine from the BSD POV.
 > -- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

I'll repeat here what I mentioned to you in private email.  Namely
that:

1.  Neither C++ nor fortran contain a yacc/bison parser, so that's not
    a problem.

2.  The long term plan I heard from Mark was to merge the C parser
    (and I assume objc) into the hand written one from C++, so
    possibly needing bison there will go away too.

3.  There remains intl/plural.y which is imported so I suspect it'll
    remain YACCable.

4.  The gengtype yacc stuff IMO is unlikely to need changing.

So I suspect you're safe on this issue.

However I was not aware that the existing files supported anything
other than bison, so it may simply be luck that it works today.  I
don't know for sure.

		--Kaveh
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Kaveh R. Ghazi			ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu