Re: [PATCH] doc: Add a cautionary note

[Pádraig Brady]

On 10/10/18 14:46, Mihir Mehta wrote:
> I ran into an issue building coreutils with the "bison++" installed,
> which is provided by my GNU/Linux distribution. Since this is an issue
> which is not detected by the bootstrap or configure scripts, I noted the
> incompatibility for users of similar distributions.
> ---
>  README-prereq | 7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/README-prereq b/README-prereq
> index fdf89fecd..9313a2220 100644
> --- a/README-prereq
> +++ b/README-prereq
> @@ -13,8 +13,11 @@ I.e., the tools checked for by the bootstrap script and 
> include:
>  - Tar       <https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/>
>  - Texinfo   <https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/>
>  
> -Note please try to install/build official packages for your system.
> -If these programs are not available use the following instructions
> +Note: please try to install/build official packages for your system.
> +Also, if using Debian or a derived GNU/Linux distribution, please
> +install the bison package, since the suggested bison++ package is
> +incompatible with building coreutils. If official packages are not
> +available for your system, use the following instructions
>  to build them and install the results into a directory that you will
>  then use when building this package.

Why was bison++ suggested?
Is there an overlap in commands used in these packages?
I.E. could the disambiguation be done in the packaging?

thanks,
Pádraig