Re: [3.2] Reconsider patches for bison 1.50?

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Zack Weinberg writes:
> This is a quote from the Debian package changelog for gcc 3.2:
> 
>   * FTBS: With the switch to bison-1.50 (and 1.75), gcc-3.2 fails to build from
>     source on Debian unstable systems. This is fixed in gcc HEAD, but not on
>     the current release branch. 
>     HELP NEEDED:
>     - check what is missing from the patches in debian/patches/bison.dpatch.
>       This is a backport of the bison related patches, but showing regressions
>       in the gcc testsuite, so it cannot be applied.
>     - build gcc using byacc (bootstrap currently fails using byacc).
>     - build bison-1.35 in it's own package (the current 1.35-3 package fails
>       to build form source).
>     - and finally ask upstream to backport the patch to the branch. It's not
>       helpful not beeing able to follow the stable branch. Maybe we should
>       just switch to gcc HEAD as BSD does ...
>     As a terrible workaround, build the sources from CVS first on a machine,
>     with bison-1.35 installed, then package the tarball, so the bison
>     generated files are not rebuilt.
> 
> I think we should reconsider not backporting the patches for bison 1.50
> to the 3.2 branch.

btw, I noticed the very same regressions on HEAD hppa-linux, but not
on HEAD i386-linux.