[ARGUS] build with bison OR yacc

eric eric-list-argus at catastrophe.net
Thu Sep 30 13:25:00 EDT 2004


On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 13:16:35 -0400, slif at bellsouth.net proclaimed...

> My point of offering the patch is building on FreeBSD 5.2.1
> appears to work well without bison.
> 
> Hey, the configure variable is named V_YACC, that was a big clue...
> 
> Given what you've just described,
> the configure test should check for -p support
> for yacc, and fall back to expecting bison, throwing
> an error only when neither of those methods work.

I'd love to see yacc become the standard; bison is about the only
package that I install on my sensors, and if I could just save that
extra 412kbytes of disk space! :)



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