Re: AC_PROG_YACC

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This would work for me, though I would still like to see
AC_ARG_VAR(YFLAGS, ...) added per my earlier patch submission.

Derek

Bruno Haible wrote:

>Mark D. Baushke wrote:
>
>>I will also note that the current getdate.y assumes that a bison 1.35 or
>>more recent is available.
>
>
>OK, can we then replace gnulib's bison macro with the following:
>
>AC_DEFUN([gl_BISON],
>[
>  # getdate.y works with bison only (because it uses bison specific
features)
>  # and actually requires bison >= 1.26.
>  # bison is only needed for the maintainer (who touches getdate.y).
But in
>  # order to avoid separate Makefiles or --enable-maintainer-mode, we put
>  # the rule in general Makefile. Now, some people carelessly touch the
>  # files or have a broken "make" program, hence the getdate.c rule will
>  # sometimes fire. To avoid an error, define GL_BISON to ":" if it
is not
>  # present or too old.
>  AC_CHECK_PROGS([GL_BISON], [bison])
>  if test -z "$GL_BISON"; then
>    ac_verc_fail=yes
>  else
>    dnl Found it, now check the version.
>    AC_MSG_CHECKING([version of bison])
>changequote(<<,>>)dnl
>    ac_prog_version=`$GL_BISON --version 2>&1 | sed -n 's/^.*GNU
Bison.* \([0-9]*\.[0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p'`
>    case $ac_prog_version in
>      '') ac_prog_version="v. ?.??, bad"; ac_verc_fail=yes;;
>      1.2[6-9]* | 1.[3-9][0-9]* | [2-9].*)
>changequote([,])dnl
>         ac_prog_version="$ac_prog_version, ok"; ac_verc_fail=no;;
>      *) ac_prog_version="$ac_prog_version, bad"; ac_verc_fail=yes;;
>    esac
>    AC_MSG_RESULT([$ac_prog_version])
>  fi
>  if test $ac_verc_fail = yes; then
>    GL_BISON=:
>  fi
>  YACC="$GL_BISON -y"
>  AC_SUBST(YACC)
>])
>
>Bruno


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