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Re: turn off putting flex/bison output in distfile?


From: Thomas E. Dickey
Subject: Re: turn off putting flex/bison output in distfile?
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 04:59:36 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:

> >>> "mcmahill" == mcmahill  <address@hidden> 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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