[Gllug] Bison question

[Pete Ryland]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 09:30:26PM +0000, rich at annexia.org wrote:
> Thanks Pete. It turns out that also what I really wanted to do way read
> the fine manual page (or in this case, info file). Which actually told me
> how these split actions work - not as above.

IIRC, split actions are slow and to be avoided if possible, hence the way I
suggested (albeit buggy as it turns out).

> I'm playing around with a replacement for make/autoconf/automake/rpm/dpkg
> because I'm sick of having a dozen configuration files, all saying roughly
> the same thing in slightly different syntax.

"Yet Another" to add to the list..  Umm.. I don't want to be a killjoy or
anything and I know autoconf/automake (and libtool!) are pains in the bum,
but why start again from scratch?  Why not improve on the existing tools
which have good rationalisations for existance?

Pete

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