Re: Bison/flex version upgrade doesn't reconstruct oct-parse.cc

[John W. Eaton]

On 09/09/2014 01:06 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> Should we at least remove the family of oct-parse.cc files with 'make
> clean'?

No, because then people who get the tar file distributions of the 
sources would be required to have bison and flex installed.  The GNU 
coding standards say they shouldn't have to have them.

If you want to clean up everything such that maintainer tools will be 
required to rebuild things, then use the maintainer-clean target instead 
of just clean.

In any case, I believe the rules for running bison and flex are 
generated by automake, so if you think it is desirable to change them, 
you should bring it up with the automake maintainers.  But I doubt there 
would be much interest in changing the behavior or the coding standards.

jwe