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Re: turn off putting flex/bison output in distfile?
- From: "Thomas E. Dickey" <dickey at herndon4 dot his dot com>
- To: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g at lrde dot epita dot fr>
- Cc: <mcmahill at mtl dot mit dot edu>, <automake at gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 04:59:36 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: turn off putting flex/bison output in distfile?
- Reply-to: <dickey at herndon4 dot his dot com>
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> >>> "mcmahill" == mcmahill <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu> writes:
>
> mcmahill> Is there a way to turn off the inclusion of lex and
> mcmahill> yacc generated output in the distfile? I've seen
> mcmahill> some problems where yacc on one box generates code
> mcmahill> which doesn't compile on a different box (assumes
> mcmahill> particular headers).
>
> I don't know. Why don't you install a portable yacc on your
> development box? (e.g., bison)
>
> This way you'll distribute portable code and will not require
> your users to install yacc in order to compile your project.
byacc is portable, and has the advantage (in contrast to bison) of being
written in ANSI C.
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