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Re: automake & flex's -P option

From: "Thomas E. Dickey" <dickey at herndon4 dot his dot com>
To: Richard Dawe <rich at phekda dot freeserve dot co dot uk>
Cc: automake at gnu dot org
Cc: Akim Demaille <akim at epita dot fr>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 06:24:04 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: automake & flex's -P option
References: <3E63E107.83C716C9@phekda.freeserve.co.uk><mv4d6kvws62.fsf@nostromo.lrde.epita.fr><3E76FCC1.D3C94306@phekda.freeserve.co.uk>
Reply-to: dickey at herndon4 dot his dot com

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Richard Dawe wrote:

> Hello.
>
> Akim Demaille wrote:
> [snip]
> > I think a lot could be done to improve the interface provided that we
> > require Bison and Flex.  The problem here stems on the willingness to
> > be yacc/lex portable.
> [snip]
>
> Out of interest: Is it a hard requirement that automake should work with lex,
> yacc rather than requiring flex, bison? Or is it likely to change in the
> future?

the autoconf maintainers do not appear to be interested in maintaining
compatibility with lex/yacc (other than paying lip-service to the notion).

-- 
T.E.Dickey <dickey at herndon4 dot his dot com>
http://invisible-island.net
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