I found the implicit rule in the Makefile. I believe it's calling a bison in the tests subfolder.
Thanks for your help Tadej and Hans -------------------------------------------- On Sun, 7/27/14, Tadej Borovšak <tadeb...@gmail.com> wrote: Subject: Re: QUESTION: is bison recursive? To: help-bison@gnu.org Date: Sunday, July 27, 2014, 9:12 PM Dne 27.07.2014 (ned) ob 20:29 +0200 je Hans Aberg napisal(a): > On 27 Jul 2014, at 02:35, sean nakasone <seannakas...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Anyone know if bison is recursive? Meaning, does the bison build call bison? > > Yes, the file src/parse-gram.y is used to make the Bison parser. > > > The reason I'm asking is because I'm going through the bison 3.0 makefile and I don't see where bison is actually being called. > > A grep on the sources shows > Makefile.in: src/parse-gram.y > but I’m not sure how exactly its called. Perhaps Akim, which I think implemented it, can tell. If I'm not mistaken, make has built-in rule for *.y -> *.c conversion. This is probably why no explicit rule is to be found in build system. Cheers, Tadej -- Tadej Borovšak tadej.borov...@gmail.com tadeb...@gmail.com blog.borovsak.si _______________________________________________ help-bison@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-bison _______________________________________________ help-bison@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-bison
