[Dibbler-devel] parser Makefile changes

[Tomasz Mrugalski]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 somebody known as Jeff Lange wrote:

> The current makefiles in SrvCfgMgr, ClntCfgMgr, and  RelCfgMgr do not
> properly rebuild the files when the parser.y or lexer.l files are changed.
> I've corrected this behavior, and attached is the patch file that fixes
> this.
Thanks. Patch looks nice, I'll check it in right away.

> Also, why are the auto generated lexer.cpp and parser.cpp files checked into
Explanation is easy: I don't want to add extra dependency for building 
dibbler. For example, poor folks running Windows would have hard time 
installing bison++. Also using different flex/bison++ version may result 
in compilation errors. So in general, I agree. It's not elegant solution, 
but it is much easier this way. Keep in mind that I had to prepare 
packages for various different systems (Debian and Gentoo was the most 
difficult), so I wanted to make the compilation as simple as possible.

Also people are compiling dibbler on various platforms, including 
low power/low efficiency/embedded devices, so additional requirements may 
by difficult for them.

I hope that explains the reasons.

By the way: are you modifying the parsers? May I ask why? Maybe I will be 
able to help? Are you developing some kind of extension, perhaps?

> Thanks
You are most welcome.

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