Re: Bison and flex target

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Philip,

* Philip Herron wrote on Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 02:51:50PM CEST:
> I am not sure if this is autoconf or automake.

If you use Automake, then this is an Automake question.  :-)

> I see there is AC_PROG_YACC and AC_PROG_LEX to get the apropriate
> programs for the configure.ac. But how do you go about adding them as
> build targets so:
> 
> yacc -d foo.yy
> lex foo.l
> 
> are run to get y.tab.{c,h} and lex.yy.c

Try something like

bin_PROGRAMS = foo
foo_SOURCES = foo.yy bar.l

If you are not using Automake, well, you can use @LEX@ and @LEXLIB@ in
your Makefile.in, as well as @address@hidden

Cheers,
Ralf