26/32bit Acorn C/C++ Tools and OSLib

[Tony van der Hoff]

On 30 Oct 2002, in message <2c708f8d4b.Jo at hobbes.riscos.be>,
John Tytgat <John.Tytgat at aaug.net> wrote:

> Is someone busy with patches to make OSLib in SourceForge compilable with
> the new 26/32bit Acorn C/C++ Tools from Castle ? I think the biggest
> problem is Tools.Yacc as its C style is no longer accepted.
> 

Well, not me :-(

I intend to purchase the new tools, but as I am busy with other things, I
have not yet done so. I was therefore not aware that this presented a
problem.

YACC is itself, of course, a GPL project, and has probably undergone its own
development cycle. I guess our snapshot is well over 5 years old. It is
likely therefore that all that is needed is to update the YACC sources.

Is the problem you've encountered with compiling YACC itself, or with its
output? If the former, there is no need to recompile YACC for each build of
OSLib; it never is likely to change, so in the short term, could simply build
it using the old tools, and simply use the binary. If the latter, then the
problem is more serious. I have certainly never looked at the internals of
YACC.

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