Paul Eggert wrote: >How about setting YACC=bison and YFLAGS=-y by default? >That would make more intuitive sense, no? >After all, -y is an option, not a program. > >
I thought of that but, following through, other parts of the build process assume that $YACC is going to behave like yacc, and some of them may be tools outside our control, so making YACC='bison -y' is least likely to confuse other parts of the build process (or perhaps users). Regards, Derek
