Re: gnats/303: GNATS 4.0 Makefile Error

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 13:00 30.11.2001 +0100, Milan Zamazal wrote:
> >>>>> "ko" == kevin olds <kevin_olds@emeraldsolutions.com> writes:
>
>     ko> I get an error saying that -o is an illegal option for yacc.
>
> Would anyone complain if we solved the problem by documenting that Bison
> and Flex are needed for complete GNATS rebuilding?  Trying to support
> all the proprietary versions of yacc and lex seems to be a useless
> effort to me.  I think it's not necessary, since the tarball will
> contain the generated *.c files, with a proper time stamp.  People
> interested in development can install Bison and Flex easily.

Agreed. Time spent solving this would surely be better spent on all the 
other small things that's holding up 4.0. Let's worry about this limitation 
after 4.0.

- Yngve