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Re: [bug-gawk] [PATCH] dependency for parallel make (bison)
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Arnold Robbins |
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Re: [bug-gawk] [PATCH] dependency for parallel make (bison) |
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Wed, 13 Sep 2017 21:43:05 +0300 |
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> What is the purpose of the y.tab.h manipulations? When I run bison, I do
> not see any y.tab.h file being produced, so I don't understand the goal
> of that part of the rule. Is it generated on some platforms, and if so, why
> do we rename it to awkgram.h?
It seems to be obsolete code. The idea is that if y.tab.h has not
changed from the existing awkgram.h, not to update the existing one.
Then any files depending upon it need not be recompiled.
But you're right. We no longer need it.
> The full patch is attached. And we can now remove bisonfix.awk from the
> repository.
Being worked on now.
Thanks,
Arnold