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

[Eli Z. <el...@gn...>]

> Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 17:40:35 +0200 (CEST)
> Cc: min...@li...
> From: Werner LEMBERG <wl...@gn...>
> 
> 
> > AFAIK, the MinGW project never offered a MinGW port of bison.
> 
> >From the README in
> 
>   https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS/Extension/bison/bison-2.4.2-1/
> 
>   The packages within the MSYS/Extension directory are supported by
>   the MinGW team, and provide useful facilities not required for a
>   basic MSYS installation.
> 
> This is what I would like to have updated.

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.

> I suspect that with `MinGW port' you mean a bison executable to be
> run outside of the msys environment.

Not "outside of MSYS environment", but rather an executable that
doesn't use any of the MSYS DLLs, including msys-1.0.dll, the Cygwin
DLL in disguise.

IOW, I mean a native Windows application that uses the native Windows
runtime, and nothing else.

> 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.