Re: warn about conflicting skeleton-generated files

[Joel E. Denny]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Hans Aberg wrote:

> 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.

The quotes should not matter as they are parsed by the shell.  I tried 
anyway, and it didn't change anything.  You must not be using Bison 2.3a.