[GRASS5] Thought on my CVS problem

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 03:25:09PM +0700, Justin Hickey wrote:
> Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 02:50:28PM +0700, Justin Hickey wrote:
> > > But these files are platform dependent (especially the autoconf files).
> > 
> > configure should not be platform dependent.
> > Most free software packages coming with a ready to run configure
> > and lex and yacc output files.
> > 
> > So you can compile without proper automake/autoconf installed.
> > But you need this as a developer if you want to create configure.
> 
> OK, but the main reason I said they were platform dependent was due to
> the amount of differences between the CVS files and those generated on
> my machine. See for example, the src/raster/r.weight/inter/gis_pars.c
> file. Click the following link and choose Diff to previous 1.2 from
> version 1.3
> 
> http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/grass/src/raster/r.weight/inter/gis_pars.c
> 
> As you can see, the files are completely different and I don't know if
> the compiling one on a different platform will cause problems or not.
> What do you think?

You were probably using completly different versions of yacc oder bison.

I see no reason why a good bison output should not be platform
dependent. If it is, then we cannot bring the preconstructed files
with the standard tarball.
	Bernhard

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