Re: warn about conflicting skeleton-generated files

[Hans Aberg]

On 13 Dec 2006, at 20:43, Joel E. Denny wrote:

> > ... in Bison 2.3a, those forms seem to
> > already work.
>
> Really?  Not for me:
>
>   % ~/installs/bison/2.3a/bin/bison --skeleton="/tmp.m4" tmp.y
>   /usr/local/bin/m4: /home/jdenny/installs/bison/2.3a/share/bison// 
> tmp.m4: No such file or directory
>   /home/jdenny/installs/bison/2.3a/bin/bison: subsidiary program `/ 
> usr/local/bin/m4' failed (exit status 1)
>
>   % ~/installs/bison/2.3a/bin/bison --skeleton="./tmp.m4" tmp.y
>   /usr/local/bin/m4: /home/jdenny/installs/bison/2.3a/share/bison/./ 
> tmp.m4: No such file or directory
>   /home/jdenny/installs/bison/2.3a/bin/bison: subsidiary program `/ 
> usr/local/bin/m4' failed (exit status 1)

I did not use the quotes around the skeleton filename. I did try all  
variations, and even checked with 'ps' that it got the right  
argument. And the name was one not present in the distribution.  
Mysterious.

  Hans Aberg