Hi Frank! > Le 24 juil. 2020 à 00:18, Frank Heckenbach <f.heckenb...@fh-soft.de> a écrit : > > Akim Demaille wrote: > >> I am very happy to announce the release of Bison 3.7 > > Thanks. I tested it and it works well for my parsers.
Great! Thanks for letting us know! > The only annoyances are the known autoblah problems: > > - The umask problem with installed directories (last time I said > it's about $prefix/share/bison, but it's actually all installed > directories including $prefix/bin etc. if they're newly created -- > I hadn't noticed since they existed before on my system). But now > I've read something about it and it seems to be a known, wontfix, > problem. I don't remember about that. I could use a pointer to this "wonfix" if you still have it at hand. > - Also well-known for a long time, but just to point out the > ridiculousness of non-parallelizable configure (and to brag > about my new CPU :) > > % time ./configure --prefix=/usr > real 0m18,328s > user 0m14,747s > sys 0m2,915s > % time make -j > real 0m1,179s > user 0m13,277s > sys 0m1,684s W00t??? 13 seconds??? How many cores do you have? > Clearly, we're long past the point where configure takes longer > than make -- by now we can actually say that build time is > negligible in comparison to configure time, even for packages of > quite some complexity such as Bison. But I know you can't do > anything about it. Yes. But I also think it is not really much of a problem. Most people install software via some distro, as binaries. And for developers like me, configure is rarely run: configure once, make many. Cheers!