Re: bison uses XFREE...

[Paul Eggert]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> the gnulib autoconf test for free (gl_FUNC_FREE) is not performed,
> so I wondered if you intended something else.

Bison itself assumes C89-or-better libraries these days; we're not
worried about porting it to SunOS 4 any more.  So we don't bother to
call gl_FUNC_FREE.

>   ./configure: line 1803: gl_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS: command not found

Thanks for reporting that.  I installed this fix:

2004-11-23  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * bootstrap (gnulib_modules): Add extensions.
        Problem reported by Jim Meyering.

Index: bootstrap
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/bison/bison/bootstrap,v
retrieving revision 1.13
retrieving revision 1.14
diff -p -u -r1.13 -r1.14
--- bootstrap   13 Aug 2004 14:28:43 -0000      1.13
+++ bootstrap   23 Nov 2004 08:50:17 -0000      1.14
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ alloca
 argmatch
 dirname
 error
+extensions
 getopt
 hard-locale
 hash