System V yacc / perl problem

Wolf N. Paul wnp at dcs.UUCP
Fri Feb 19 23:17:07 AEST 1988


In article <5096 at sdcrdcf.UUCP> faigin at sdcrdcf.UUCP (Daniel P Faigin) writes:
 >In article <3328 at cbmvax.UUCP> grr at cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
 >>It would be helpful if Larry could include the yacc output, ...
 >
 >... . The problem is that the output of yacc contains AT&T
 >propriatary code (inserted by the yacc program), and so yacc
 >output can only be sent to parties with a source license. ...
 >... . The way I understand it, you cannot compile perl if you don't
 >have access to yacc or bison (GNU yacc).

If perl can be combined using bison, why not post the bison output instead of
the yacc input or output? Certainly bison output does not contain any AT&T
proprietary code ?!?

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