Re: [bug-gawk] [PATCH] dependency for parallel make (bison)

[arnold]

Hi.

> > command.c: command.y
> >     $(YACC) -o $@ -p zz $<
> >     sed 's/parse error/syntax error/g' < $@ > address@hidden && mv 
> > address@hidden $@
>
> I'm agree, this is better.

I am using this change.

> > But I don't know whether it's safe to use "-o" on all of our platforms.

We already rely on the parser generator being Bison beause of the -p
option, so using -o is not awful. I am adding a note in the README.

> >  With
> > -o, we could eliminate the bisonfix.awk hack for awkgram.y as well, but that
> > rule is a bit messier because of the shenanigans with y.tab.h.

Andy, please pull in a litle bit and then if you can come up
with such a fix, that'd be great.

> > And if we knew that we were dealing with GNU sed, we could write:
> > 
> > command.c: command.y
> >     $(YACC) -o $@ -p zz $<
> >     sed -i 's/parse error/syntax error/g' $@

This is not reasonable though.  A stock legacy Unix system won't
necessarily have it.

Thanks,

Arnold