Re: abbreviated 'for' broken with --enable-minimal-config

[Chet Ramey]

> 
> Chet> Did you happen to just build the minimal config, and did you use
> Chet> bison-1.75 to build it?
> 
> Yes.  Is it bison's fault?  Do I need to upgrade bison?

Yes.  Bison-1.75 is horribly broken.  I hope there's a newer version.

Here's the problem.  Bison is translating this string, which appears
in parse.y:

        "\"$@\""

to the following, which appears in the generated y.tab.c:

        "\"\""

The question is what bison is doing with the `$@'.

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