On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Eric Blake wrote: > On 02/25/2010 08:40 AM, Joel E. Denny wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Eric Blake wrote: > > > >> touch src/parse-gram.[ch] > >> > >> so that they did not have the same timestamp as src/parse-gram.y; that > >> way make no longer tried to regenerated them with a missing src/bison. > >> > >> Is this step something that should be folded into bootstrap? > > > > That would be fine with me, but it would be nice if there were a feature > > of gnulib's bootstrap that we could configure with bison's bootstrap.conf. > > bootstrap.conf is allowed to redefine the shell function > bootstrap_epilogue, which is a perfect place to stick in this particular > functionality.
Thanks. I pushed this to branch-2.4.3, branch-2.5, and master. >From b733bcd00e6fc8db45c86dc289938a28c1bf72d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joel E. Denny <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:44:43 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] build: don't require src/bison during bootstrap. Suggested by Eric Blake at <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2010-03/msg00003.html>. * bootstrap.conf (bootstrap_epilogue): New function to make sure src/parse-gram.[ch] are stamped later than src/parse-gram.y. --- ChangeLog | 8 ++++++++ bootstrap.conf | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 98d8eaf..18b0946 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +2010-04-25 Joel E. Denny <[email protected]> + + build: don't require src/bison during bootstrap. + Suggested by Eric Blake at + <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2010-03/msg00003.html>. + * bootstrap.conf (bootstrap_epilogue): New function to make sure + src/parse-gram.[ch] are stamped later than src/parse-gram.y. + 2010-04-11 Joel E. Denny <[email protected]> * NEWS (2.4.3): Mention fix for Sun Studio C++. diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf index fc5a0e9..c8993fe 100644 --- a/bootstrap.conf +++ b/bootstrap.conf @@ -65,3 +65,10 @@ excluded_files=' # In directories like lib/, m4/, and po/, generate both these files because we # still try to support CVS emulation. vc_ignore='.cvsignore .gitignore' + +bootstrap_epilogue() +{ + # Make sure we don't need src/bison, which usually doesn't exist at + # the time of a bootstrap. + touch src/parse-gram.[ch] +} -- 1.5.4.3
