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From:	"Juan Manuel Guerrero" <st001906 AT hrz1 DOT hrz DOT tu-darmstadt DOT de>
Organization:	Darmstadt University of Technology
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Tue, 11 Jan 2005 21:56:54 +0200
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Subject:	ANNOUNCE: port of alpha bison-2.0
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The announce restriction to djgpp-workers is intentional.
This is a port of the actual alpha release of bison.
Starting with bison-1.35, the authors have decided to remove any support for
non-posix systems like msdos/djgpp, MingW, etc. My patch for djgpp support
for bison-1.875 has consequently been rejected but they offered my a djgpp
directory to include all the djgpp specific files.
Now, this port is the attempt to adapt the previous patch to the actual code
and to the actual coding conditions.
This port also fixes some minor issues that have been pending from the last port:
1) make distclean now works.
2) NLS support now works. Checks if libiconv and libgettext and nls-tools are
   installed. If something is missed nls support is disabled no matter what
   the user specifies at the command line.

The sources have been configured and compiled for djdev203 on Win98 SE using
actual tools. No compiling nor testing on WinXP. As usual, to run the testsuite
LFN support is required. Non of the tests shall fail. From the 127 tests
125 will pass and 2 will be skipped. These are:

115: Doxygen Public Documentation                 skipped (c++.at:102)
116: Doxygen Private Documentation                skipped (c++.at:103)

I do not have the required tools. If more tests are skipped probably some
other tools are missing in your installation.
May be someone can test this on WinXP before I submite the patch to the bison
maintainers. As usual in the case that the sources shall be reconfigured for WinXP use,
the config.cache file in the djgpp directory must be removed before configuring.
Everything djgpp specific is in /djgpp in the case someone wants to look at it.


The packages are available at ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (timestamp 2005-01-11):

    Bison 2.0 binary, info and man format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/alpha/v2gnu/bsn20b.zip

    Bison 2.0 source:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/alpha/v2gnu/bsn20s.zip

Regards,
Juan M. Guerrero

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