Re: My plans for Bison: simplify autotools use

[Eric S. Raymond]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden>:
> One way to get a handle on the porting issues involved, would be to look at
> the Gnulib modules that Bison uses (see bootstrap.conf's gnulib_modules),
> and then go to the Gnulib documentation to see what porting issues they
> address. One should take the transitive closure of the Gnulib modules
> explicitly listed in bootstrap.conf, together with all the Gnulib modules
> they depend on.

Oh, bletch.

I see your point.

I'll have to do that audit first before there is any point in discussing
this further.

Moving the whole mess to Go is looking better and better... :-)
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