Re: QUESTION: is bison recursive?

[sean nakasone]

I found the implicit rule in the Makefile.

I believe it's calling a bison in the tests subfolder.

Thanks for your help Tadej and Hans

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On Sun, 7/27/14, Tadej Borovšak <address@hidden> wrote:

 Subject: Re: QUESTION: is bison recursive?
 To: address@hidden
 Date: Sunday, July 27, 2014, 9:12 PM
 
 Dne 27.07.2014 (ned) ob
 20:29 +0200 je Hans Aberg napisal(a):
 >
 On 27 Jul 2014, at 02:35, sean nakasone <address@hidden>
 wrote:
 > 
 > >
 Anyone know if bison is recursive?  Meaning, does the bison
 build call bison?
 > 
 >
 Yes, the file src/parse-gram.y is used to make the Bison
 parser.
 > 
 > > The
 reason I'm asking is because I'm going through the
 bison 3.0 makefile and I don't see where bison is
 actually being called.
 > 
 > A grep on the sources shows
 >   Makefile.in: 
 src/parse-gram.y
 > but I’m not sure how
 exactly its called. Perhaps Akim, which I think implemented
 it, can tell.
 
 If I'm
 not mistaken, make has built-in rule for *.y -> *.c
 conversion.
 This is probably why no explicit
 rule is to be found in build system.
 
 Cheers,
 Tadej
 
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