Re: build from tarball uses bison

[Indu Bhagat]

On 2/20/21 5:15 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > > bison -d -t --report=state --output pk-map-tab.c \
> > >            ../../poke/pk-map-tab.y
> > >
> > > While the GCS allow this (see
> > > <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Utilities-in-Makefiles.html>),
> > > it is a best practice to avoid bison as a build prerequisite, by packaging
> > > the generated files in the tarball. See
> > > <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Makefile-Basics.html>
> > >
> > > The attached patch to poke/Makefile.am fixes this.
> > >
> > > The libpoke/ subdirectory has a related problem: It distributes the
> > > pkl-tab.h and pkl-tab.c files (good!), but erases them during "make clean".
> > > After "make clean", "make" then needs bison here as well:
> > >
> > > bison -d -t --report=state --output pkl-tab.c \
> > >            ./pkl-tab.y
> > >
> > > Also fixed in the patch.
> >
> > OK for master.
> > Thanks!
>
> Pushed.

I am getting a build error on master branch with the usual configure and 
build command that worked earlier.

gcc: error: ../../poke/libpoke/pkl-tab.c: No such file or directory
gcc: fatal error: no input files

Does something in the build/configure step need to change with this commit?

Thanks
Indu