Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 11:52:50 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Mark E. wrote:

> While trying to build the binutils from CVS, I encountered a (yet another) 
> problem with bison and y_tab.[ch]. binutils uses automake's ylwrap 
> which in turn calls bison or its equivalent. Problem is, ylwrap expects 
> bison to generate y.tab.c and not y_tab.c and stops when y.tab.c can't 
> be found.

I know almost nothing about Automake, so caveat emptor.

One solution would be to look for y.tab.c, and if that fails, look for
y_tab.c.  Similar solutions were in the past suggested to maintainers
of several GNU packages, and they agreed to accept them.