Re: [3.2] Reconsider patches for bison 1.50?
Zack Weinberg writes:
> This is a quote from the Debian package changelog for gcc 3.2:
>
> * FTBS: With the switch to bison-1.50 (and 1.75), gcc-3.2 fails to build from
> source on Debian unstable systems. This is fixed in gcc HEAD, but not on
> the current release branch.
> HELP NEEDED:
> - check what is missing from the patches in debian/patches/bison.dpatch.
> This is a backport of the bison related patches, but showing regressions
> in the gcc testsuite, so it cannot be applied.
> - build gcc using byacc (bootstrap currently fails using byacc).
> - build bison-1.35 in it's own package (the current 1.35-3 package fails
> to build form source).
> - and finally ask upstream to backport the patch to the branch. It's not
> helpful not beeing able to follow the stable branch. Maybe we should
> just switch to gcc HEAD as BSD does ...
> As a terrible workaround, build the sources from CVS first on a machine,
> with bison-1.35 installed, then package the tarball, so the bison
> generated files are not rebuilt.
>
> I think we should reconsider not backporting the patches for bison 1.50
> to the 3.2 branch.
btw, I noticed the very same regressions on HEAD hppa-linux, but not
on HEAD i386-linux.
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