commit: 7048b4a1745b492a30e94e6c49cc2be052ca6ac4
parent 622dd36d1f191128b6e8ae46f36c53e79e3b1a9e
Author: fosslinux <fosslinux@aussies.space>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 10:02:28 +1100
Replace byacc with oyacc in parts.rst
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/parts.rst b/parts.rst
@@ -322,15 +322,23 @@ we skip them.
The ``cp`` in this stage replaces the ``mescc-tools-extra`` ``cp``.
-byacc 20240109
-==============
+oyacc 6.6
+=========
+
+``oyacc`` is a portable derivative of OpenBSD's Yacc parser generator. Unlike
+``bison``, it can be compiled with a simple ``Makefile``. Some simple patches
+are required for mes libc.
+
+We need a Yacc implementation for bash.
-The Berkeley Yacc parser generator, a public-domain implementation of the
-``yacc`` utility. Differently from the analogous ``bison`` utility from the
-GNU project, it can be compiled with a simple ``Makefile``.
+Side note; the following other implementations have been tested and not adopted:
-Some code is backported from an earlier version of byacc, 20140101, because
-of an incompatibility of newer versions with meslibc.
+- GNU Bison: requires a more complicated build we cannot yet support without
+ lots of work
+- Heirloom Devtools: licensed under a GPL-incompatible license, which makes the
+ resultant binary with mes libc (GPL licensed) non-distributable
+- Berkeley Yacc: has a few C files generated using an Awk script; Awk is not yet
+ available to us
bash 2.05b
==========
@@ -341,7 +349,7 @@ kaem, including proper POSIX sh support, globbing, etc.
Bash ships with a bison pre-generated file here which we delete.
Unfortunately, we have not bootstrapped bison but fortunately for us,
-Berkeley Yacc is able to cope here.
+OpenBSD's Yacc is able to cope here.
setup_repo
==========
@@ -465,7 +473,7 @@ Differently from the analogous utilities from the GNU project, they can
be compiled with a simple ``Makefile``.
Because issues with the Heirloom version of ``yacc`` compiled against musl,
-we continue using Berkeley Yacc together with Heirloom ``lex`` for the next
+we continue using OpenBSD's ``yacc`` together with Heirloom ``lex`` for the next
few steps.
flex 2.5.11
