Re: C++ example does not make from scratch

[Akim Demaille]

Le 7 août 08 à 19:31, Kevin O'Gorman a écrit :

> Re: bison-2.3, fresh download from gnu.org mirror.

Hi,

> The example calc++ obscures the procedure for making it because the
> distribution includes and uses the bison and flex outputs rather than
> generating them from the input files.

It is so because, for instance, it is not required from the
user to have flex installed.  It is true that the bison's
output files could not be shipped.

> It would be much more helpful if it built from scratch, so that us  
> normal
> users could see the commands that are used to make it on our  
> configuration.
> As it is, I had to guess (often wrong) about what was the original  
> input
> and what was generated.

Please have a look at examples/calc++/Makefile.am, it should
contain what you are looking for.  Unless you mean that the
doc should contain just a plain sequence of program calls?