switch tounconditionnal boostrapping while to build the tree

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Wed May 30 13:02:45 UTC 2012


On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 08:11:56AM -0400, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell wrote:
> i find the statements hard to believe
> 
> why are you doing it that way ?  (using a broken yacc)
It is not a broken yacc. the yacc import just revealed another problem which is
boostrap tools may needs to be always boostraped (which makes sense if you
really want to support cross-compilation from nearly anywhere.

> why do you believe it's ok to change previous releases that don't use that yacc ?

To build able to build them on a system that do not have the yacc version they
need, that system could be linux for example or it could be a recent head

regards,
Bapt
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