[9fans] all you yacc experts

[quanstro@labs.coraid.com (erik quanstrom)]

On Fri Nov 11 11:08:13 EST 2011, rminnich at gmail.com wrote:
> Go is pretty solid on 386 and I'm slowly puzzling my way through NIX support.
> 
> One thing that stands in the way of full native build is the bison issue.
> 
> If somebody wants to look at enhancing yacc so that the extra bison
> bits can be supported, that would probably do the trick. I have no
> idea of the level of effort, I have not looked.
> 
> We could run bison under linuxemu; I don't think this approach is as
> good because it still leaves us a bit dependent on some outside force
> for bison binaries. But that might be a good stopgap.
> 
> I'm looking forward to Go 1 because I'm pretty sure that most of what
> we've had to do for this version of Go will go away :-)
> 
> I'm still amused that the best way to write portable C is to just ship
> a reasonable C compiler with Go and use gcc to build that C compiler,
> and then compile your portable C with it :-)

at one time the go .y wasn't bison dependent.  is the new dependency
a choice or requirement?

- erik