Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 09 Jul 2006 11:28:59 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.18-rc1 build error (YACC): followup |
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Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 04:54:34PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> I propose the following as a global yacc rule; already used in usr/dash >> in the klibc tree, and which seems to work for both bison and BSD yacc: >> >> quiet_cmd_yacc = YACC $@ >> cmd_yacc = $(YACC) -d -o $@ $< >> >> $(obj)/%.c %(obj)/%.h: $(src)/%.y >> $(call cmd,yacc) > klibc and the kernel does not share any rules today. > And yacc is so special that it's not worth it only for yacc to start > doing this. > > In todays kernel build yacc is never used. For the few cases were output > of yacc is needed the kernel include _shipped files. For dash we should > maybe consider the same? >
Personally I consider that pretty silly. yacc/bison is a standard, portable utility, and it isn't even architecture-dependent so there is no porting effort.
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