On 14 Dec 2006, at 07:54, Joel E. Denny wrote:
A point of ambiguity just occurred to me. What are relative file
names
relative to? For --skeleton, I think it's the current working
directory.
For %skeleton, it seems like the grammar file directory, so that would
have to be prepended.
When I checked it (the right way) in 2.3a, there seems to be no
difference: they are always relative the /usr/local/share/bison/
directory in my installation. There, I want a way to make it relative
the directory 'bison' was invoked.
I propose:
1. If the file name does not contain `/', prepend `pkgdatadir/'.
2. If it does, don't.
So this might suffice for that. But what if one writes
%skeleton "my/lalr.cc"
Would one not expect it to work like
%skeleton "lalr.cc"
but checking in the subdirectory "my"?
(My, you are a patient guy! :-)
Well, these discussions usually do prove useful.
And these seemingly silly little details are used rather intuitively,
making important to set them correctly. :-)
Hans Aberg
