Re: byacc problem with FreeBSD ...

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> > damn ... I thought that our configure refused anything *but* bison?  how
> > come its allowying me to use byacc? :)
> 
> I think it should try to use the system yacc if it can't find bison.
> It is possible to build our grammar with non-bison yaccs, since we
> aren't using any bison-only features (not true for lex/flex,
> unfortunately).
> 
> Persuading the local yacc to enlarge its tables enough to accept our
> grammar is an exercise for the user ;-).  I have some notes about
> making HPUX's yacc work in FAQ_HPUX.
> 
> But our distro should certainly use bison to build the derived files.
> You used to have bison on hub.org, what happened to it?

Not sure ... its in ports, and it isn't one that I can think of having
ever removed *scratch head*  And we haven't done any major hardware
upgrades recently that would have caused me to rebuild /usr/local :(

Maybe up until recently it actually squeeked by on byacc *shrug*