Re: Incorrect description of YACC

[Paul Eggert]

On 08/26/2010 07:12 PM, Chris Long wrote:
> "The `Yet Another C Compiler' implementation to use." YACC
> actually stands for"Yet Another Compiler Compiler."

Thanks for reporting that.  I fixed it as follows:

>From 550c648c10df17e261144808169433742a0d8610 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:21:01 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] AC_PROG_YACC: fix comment re what "yacc" stands for

* lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_YACC): YACC stands for
"Yet Another Compiler Compiler", not "Yet Another C Compiler".
Problem reported by Chris Long in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2010-08/msg00134.html>.
---
 ChangeLog                |    8 ++++++++
 lib/autoconf/programs.m4 |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6accc2f..8ddf026 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2010-08-29  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
+
+       AC_PROG_YACC: fix comment re what "yacc" stands for
+       * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_YACC): YACC stands for
+       "Yet Another Compiler Compiler", not "Yet Another C Compiler".
+       Problem reported by Chris Long in
+       <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2010-08/msg00134.html>.
+
 2010-08-27  Ralf Wildenhues  <address@hidden>
 
        Avoid long lines in testsuite script.
diff --git a/lib/autoconf/programs.m4 b/lib/autoconf/programs.m4
index e7eeb6f..c90d9b2 100644
--- a/lib/autoconf/programs.m4
+++ b/lib/autoconf/programs.m4
@@ -895,8 +895,8 @@ AN_PROGRAM([bison], [AC_PROG_YACC])
 AC_DEFUN([AC_PROG_YACC],
 [AC_CHECK_PROGS(YACC, 'bison -y' byacc, yacc)dnl
 AC_ARG_VAR(YACC,
-[The `Yet Another C Compiler' implementation to use.  Defaults to the first
-program found out of: `bison -y', `byacc', `yacc'.])dnl
+[The `Yet Another Compiler Compiler' implementation to use.  Defaults to
+the first program found out of: `bison -y', `byacc', `yacc'.])dnl
 AC_ARG_VAR(YFLAGS,
 [The list of arguments that will be passed by default to $YACC.  This script
 will default YFLAGS to the empty string to avoid a default value of `-d' given
-- 
1.7.2