Re: [Mingw-users] bison 3.0.2 and m4sugar.m4

[Werner L. <wl...@gn...>]

> That's an MSYS Bison, not a MinGW (a.k.a. "native") Bison.  I don't
> see why would you need an MSYS Bison, unless you are building the
> MSYS toolchain.

Hmm.

>> As mentioned earlier, I don't really need this since I configure
>> and compile my package within an msys shell.
> 
> That's a serious confusion, but I won't explain why unless you ask
> me to.  If you are happy running MSYS Bison, it's fine by me.

Well, please explain.  I always thought that the msys binaries are
(mainly?) used for executing configure scripts or Makefiles within the
msys shell.  In case I'm wrong, I really wonder why executing `bison'
on the msys prompt works at all...


    Werner