GNU bug report logs - #50469
[bison-3.8] bug or side effect to flex & automake

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Package: automake;

Reported by: Akim Demaille <akim <at> lrde.epita.fr>

Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 05:33:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Zack Weinberg" <zack <at> owlfolio.org>
To: bug-automake <at> gnu.org
Cc: autoconf <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50469: [bison-3.8] bug or side effect to flex & automake
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2021 09:28:50 -0400

On Wed, Sep 8, 2021, at 1:31 AM, Akim Demaille wrote:
> One big problem with the Autotools as of today is that they promote
> the use of macros/build rules for Yacc, not for Bison.

The contract of AC_PROG_YACC is to find something that will generate
parsers from POSIX-compliant input; all three of bison, byacc, and
classic yacc are considered.

We would be happy to take contributions of AC_PROG_BISON (and
AC_PROG_FLEX), but as you know there isn’t anyone doing active
development of Autoconf right now, so it’s not going to happen without
someone stepping up.

zw
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