Re: No Bison 3 in untainted macOS installs

[Uxio Prego]

> On 15 Dec 2018, at 13:49, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Le 15 déc. 2018 à 11:05, Uxio Prego <address@hidden> a écrit :
>> 
>> Does anybody know when Bison 3 is going to be added to
>> macOS?
> 
> I was unaware that Bison was shipped as part of macOS.  [...]

$ /usr/bin/bison --version
bison (GNU Bison) 2.3
Written by Robert Corbett and Richard Stallman.

Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

While looking for Darwin uses of it, (simply a naive grep,
of only /usr/), found another binary:

$ 
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/bison
 --version
bison (GNU Bison) 2.3
Written by Robert Corbett and Richard Stallman.

Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

$ file /usr/bin/bison 
/usr/bin/bison: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
$ ls -l /usr/bin/bison 
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  18288 Oct 24 11:52 /usr/bin/bison
$ file 
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/bison
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/bison:
 Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
$ ls -l 
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/bison
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  212208 Oct 20 03:23 
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/bison
$ uname -a
Darwin llc.local 18.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 18.2.0: Fri Oct  5 19:41:49 PDT 
2018; root:xnu-4903.221.2~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

I suppose those two are Apple hand, obviously can't
guarantee, and not planning any factory reset any soon
for this host - but the backups are mostly fresh and safe,
so I could actually afford.

Ambisonics are some thing, so grepping /Applications/
is a bit dirtier.