Re: broken setup.hint files

2001-12-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Ummm...they are not broken. You just dislike some stylistic choices... Well, setup.exe barfs on the. Quoting from inilex.l: sdesc: return SDESC; ldesc: return LDESC; category:return CATEGORY; requires:

Re: broken setup.hint files

2001-12-08 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You are right: the *setup.ini* grammar as parsed by *setup.exe* requires colons. However, setup.ini is created on sourceware by a script called upset. And, the *setup.hint* grammar as parsed by upset doesn't require colons. Ah, but it does as

RE: broken setup.hint files

2001-12-08 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Charles Wilson wrote: the hints may just be old. Originally, the spec for hint files said include curr and prev fields. Later, it was changed to that often causes confusion when folks forget to update the setup.hint. Don't include curr/prev fields unless you must Actually (assuming