Re: Bison 2.3 released

[Paul Eggert]

"Nelson H. F. Beebe" <address@hidden> writes:

> bison -y is not fully compatible with yacc, and I have several
> grammars for which it matters.

Which grammars are these?  Ideally, do you have URLs for the grammars
in question?  We'd like to be compatible if possible.  (Also, which of
'yacc' do you prefer, for these grammars?)

> please make the installation of the yacc wrapper script optional.

Thanks for the suggestion.  I added this to the TODO list, by
installing the following patch.  I assume you also want the same
option to disable installation of the yacc library.

2006-06-07  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * TODO: Add request from Nelson H. F. Beebe to be able to install
        Bison without installing the yacc script.

--- TODO        10 Mar 2006 13:56:47 -0000      1.95
+++ TODO        8 Jun 2006 05:14:36 -0000       1.96
@@ -12,6 +12,15 @@ They should not: it is not documented.  
 find something clean (not like YYLSP_NEEDED...).
 
 
+* Installation
+
+** Disable installation of yacc.
+
+Add an option to 'configure' that allows people to install Bison
+without installing the yacc wrapper script or the rarely-used little
+yacc library required by Posix.  This is for people who prefer some
+other implementation of yacc.
+
 * Documentation
 Before releasing, make sure the documentation ("Understanding your
 parser") refers to the current `output' format.