Re: Bison no longer builds with K&R C.

[Peter Klein]

Hi Paul,
> 
> Thanks for trying it and for sending me the (voluminous) log.
>
I hope it was useful ?!

> I doubt whether it's worth your time or mine to debug this, so I
> propose that we officially discontinue support for building Bison with
> K&R C.  Here is a proposed (and untested patch) for discussion; if
> there's no disagreement, I'll test and install it.
>

>From my personal point of view that's absolutely ok.
Bison 1.75 configured and compiled with gcc (I uused 2.95.3)
on SunOS 4.1.4. For me that's sufficient.

> 2002-10-16  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * NEWS: Officially drop support for building Bison with K&R C,
>       since it didn't work anyway and it's not worth worrying about.
>       * Makefile.maint (wget_files): Remove ansi2knr.c.
>       (ansi2knr.c-url_prefix): Remove.
>       * .cvsignore: Remove ansi2knr, ansi2knr.*.
>       * lib/Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Remove.
>       * src/Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Remove.
>
Let me know, where there is 1.75a available. Even if it is unofficial.
I'll test it.

Kind Regards

Peter