From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Bob Tracy <rct@gherkin.frus.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc1 build error (YACC): followup
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 11:28:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44B14AEB.2060902@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060709133844.GA6650@mars.ravnborg.org>
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.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-09 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-07 20:24 2.6.18-rc1 build error (YACC): followup Bob Tracy
2006-07-07 20:36 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-07-07 22:36 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-07-07 23:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-09 13:38 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-07-09 18:28 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-07-10 12:46 ` Bob Tracy
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