Re: AC_PROG_YACC

Bruno Haible <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs,gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.bugs,gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Derek Robert Price wrote:
> > >>My workaround will be to just stick a `YFLAGS=' line in my
> > >>Makefile.am, but I thought you might like the bug report.
> > >
> > >So this means, YFLAGS is meant as a variable through which the user can
> > >influence the compilation (like CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS etc.). By
> > >setting it to empty, you give the user less freedom.
>
> Not true.  I am _defaulting_ it to empty by setting it via configure.

That's reasonable, but for this to work as you expect, the default must
be set from configure.ac or a .m4 macro, not from Makefile.am.

> My new solution just AC_ARG_VARs both YACC & YFLAGS

Sounds OK for YFLAGS. However, for YACC it's not what we want because it
doesn't enforce the requirement that bison is used.

Bruno
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