Re: Tie LilyPond, lexer and parser together more type-safely. (issue 5501056)

[dak]

On 2011/12/21 22:29:20, dak wrote:
> Han-Wen Nienhuys <mailto:address@hidden> writes:

> > Does this require a required version bump in configure for
flex/bison?

> Good question.

> Looking at /usr/share/doc/bison/changelog.gz, I see for example

> 2003-04-28  Tim Van Holder <mailto:address@hidden>

>          * data/yacc.c: (b4_lex_param): Corrected for the case where
>          %lex-param is provided and %pure-parser isn't.

> That makes it likely that we won't be hearing lots of hollering from
> users if the version is not entirely accurate in configure.

In case that has not been obvious: I think it is not trivial to acquire
accurate version information and I don't expect to see problems in
practice.  If and when we get a version-related report, we can use that
information for updating the required versions, but I don't think it's
worth actively hunting for it.


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