From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com>
To: Randy Joiner <rjoiner@tc.net>
Cc: Egcs Mail List <egcs@cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: Huh? 
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 22:10:00 -0000
Message-id: <199810220155.SAA24492@cygnus.com>
References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981021144041.2904V-100000@tc.net>
X-SW-Source: 1998-10/msg00824.html

> WTF is bison?  And why do I need it to compile the snapshot?

(1) bison is the GNU replacement for yacc.

(2) I made a mistake in migrating java;  the current egcs
(and future snapshots) should have things fixed that the
cvs repository again includes the bison-generated parse.c
(and thus you should you no longer need bison).

(3) However, it is likely that at somepoint we will no longer
include bison-generated files in the cvs tree.  In that case,
if you want to build from the cvs sources, you will need
bison.  However, actual *release* (and snapshot) *tar* files
will still include the bison-generated files.

(4) In any case, you might want to remove or not build the java
stuff; without a run-time (coming soon!), it won't do you much good.

	--Per Bothner
Cygnus Solutions     bothner@cygnus.com     http://www.cygnus.com/~bothner