On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:02:36AM +1100, Ken Foskey wrote:
> Bison is used in open office,  my clue factor is zero on this.
> 
> Debian Woody recently upgraded bison to 1.31 and it appears to have
> broken the bison command line parameters.
[... bison -d broken ...]

The code that generates the filenames changed quite a bit from 1.30 to 1.31.
I don't know why - it was quite elegantly done in 1.30.  Anyway, which
version are you using?  1.31-1 or 1.31-2?  I can't seem to reproduce this on
either.

Best regards,
Pete

> this is what happens:
> 
> bison -d -o output input
> 
> THe old system would create
> 
> output.h   (header file for most programs)
> 
> output  (actual parser)
> 
> the new bison appears to be only creating
> 
> output  (contains header files).
> 
> I just read the man page and it says '-d Write an extra'....   So I
> think this release is broken.
> 
> Can anyone who knows this stuff please confirm or deny this.
> 
> KenF
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