Re: make pkgdatadir relative to program path if not specified

[Akim Demaille]

Hi Victor,

> Le 27 oct. 2018 à 08:03, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> Hi Victor,
> 
>> Le 26 oct. 2018 à 21:27, Victor Zverovich <address@hidden> a écrit :
>> 
>> Currently running bison using a path other than the install path e.g.
>> via a network share results in the following error
>> 
>> bison: .../share/bison/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: cannot open: No such file
>> or directory
>> 
>> Fix this by setting setting pkgdatadir relative to program path if
>> BISON_PKGDATADIR is not specified.
> 
> I need to take time to think about this.  gnulib offers options to make
> the package relocatable, in which case, it would be better to follow
> that other path.
> 
> Let’s see that _after_ the release of Bison 3.2.
> 
> Thanks!

Bison was made relocatable:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bison-patches/2018-12/msg00071.html

It should be part of Bison 3.3.  Please, test it and report.
A preview tarball is currently available here:

https://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/private/bison/bison-3.2.1.136-a4ed.tar.gz
https://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/private/bison/bison-3.2.1.136-a4ed.tar.xz

Cheers!