On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 04:53:22PM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Clinton A. Pierce wrote: > >And it also seems to want (by reading the makefile) bison and flex, > > No, the generated files are in CVS. If there is a timestamp problem, > just touch imcparser.* and imclexer.c. And of course there are > flex/bisons for Win out there somewhere, if one wants actually change > the .l/.y sources.
Could we bodge round this by adding a Configure.pl flag to suppress adding the rules to use bison (or add in more rules to defeat any make default rules, as I think perl5 does), and default this to suppress? The 3 or 4 people on this list who do want to edit those files are on-the-ball enough to remember to run Configure.pl in such a way to turn off the suppress. I think that this would make life easier for everyone. (because it also saves the 3 or 4 people on the list having to read tedious e-mail messages from people about the subject) Nicholas Clark
