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Re: Precious YACC & YFLAGS


From: Derek Price
Subject: Re: Precious YACC & YFLAGS
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:53:28 -0400
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Paul Eggert wrote:

>How about setting YACC=bison and YFLAGS=-y by default?
>That would make more intuitive sense, no?
>After all, -y is an option, not a program.
>  
>

I thought of that but, following through, other parts of the build
process assume that $YACC is going to behave like yacc, and some of them
may be tools outside our control, so making YACC='bison -y' is least
likely to confuse other parts of the build process (or perhaps users).

Regards,

Derek





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