Re: 2.6.18-rc1 build error (YACC): followup

[rct@gherkin.frus.com (Bob Tracy)]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 04:54:34PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >> I propose the following as a global yacc rule; already used in usr/dash 
> >> in the klibc tree, and which seems to work for both bison and BSD yacc:
> >>
> >> quiet_cmd_yacc = YACC    $@
> >>       cmd_yacc = $(YACC) -d -o $@ $<
> >>
> >> $(obj)/%.c %(obj)/%.h: $(src)/%.y
> >>         $(call cmd,yacc)
> > klibc and the kernel does not share any rules today.
> > And yacc is so special that it's not worth it only for yacc to start
> > doing this.
> > 
> > In todays kernel build yacc is never used. For the few cases were output
> > of yacc is needed the kernel include _shipped files. For dash we should
> > maybe consider the same?
> > 
> 
> Personally I consider that pretty silly.  yacc/bison is a standard, 
> portable utility, and it isn't even architecture-dependent so there is 
> no porting effort.

While the correct fix is being contemplated, LEX also needs defining in
the same aic7xxx/aicasm Makefile context.

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