From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2006-04-09T23:38:28+09:00
Subject: Re: [PATCH] parse.y: literal strings for tokens

Robin Stocker <robin@nibor.org> writes:

> Christian Neukirchen wrote:
>> nobu@ruby-lang.org writes:
>>> This depends on GNU make?
>> Most of all, it breaks "make distclean"...
>
> I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean that if someone stops make
> before the temporary files are removed again and then runs "make
> distclean", the files stay there?

I mean that "make distclean" should create the state of the tree as it
was unpacked/unconfigured/checked-out.  Your changes to parse.y won't
be made undone.

> -  rm -f y.tab.c
>
> So the y.tab.c file also breaks "make distclean"?

No, since y.tab.c can be recreated by running yacc again.

>   Robin Stocker
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