Re: Bison 3.5.92 on Haiku

[Akim Demaille]

Hi Paul, hi Bruno,

> Le 4 mai 2020 à 00:58, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> On 5/3/20 3:39 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
>> Is it more important to be resilient, or more important
>> that if help2man fails for reasons that are in the package itself, "make"
>> fails?
> 
> We've been doing the latter for quite some time. I'm not sure the Haiku
> tar/kernel bug is a good argument to change common practice, as one can run 
> into
> similar problems on more-common platforms if the timestamps on one's files are
> messed up.

I agree with Paul here: as of today, I prefer a hard error.


However, I'll have to have a closer a look at this, and see if I can find some 
nice way to address this issue.  But I'm running out of Free Software time, I 
have to change my hat now.

I had never heard of Haiku.  Is there any chance they will fix that problem?