Re: $(YACC) on Linux

[Peter Eisentraut]

Vaclav Barta writes:

> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Vaclav Barta writes:
> > > I can define YFLAGS = -d in my Makefile.am and it will work on
> > > my machine. What I'd like to ask, is, of course: is this the
> > > right, autoconf-sanctioned, portable thing to do? And even
> > > better - would it be possible to fix autoconf to handle this
> > > possibility?
> > This is an Automake issue.  Autoconf has nothing to do with what
> > happens in Makefiles.
> Autoconf generates the configure script, which generates Makefiles
> - I wouldn't call that "nothing to do".

configure performs substitutions in arbitrary text files, it knows nothing
about the nature of Makefiles.

> If you mean Makefile.am, I know
> it's used by automake to generate Makefile.in - I just think
> that in my case automake works OK (the Makefile.in looks OK to me,
> for what that's worth :-) ) and the problem is in the configure
> script.

configure works okay in your case, it detects 'YACC = bison -y' as
designed and documented.  Your problem is an automake issue.

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