[Bro-Dev] Cmake for Bro

Gregor Maier gregor at ICSI.Berkeley.EDU
Mon Oct 18 16:54:22 PDT 2010


>> 2) bison vs. byacc
> 
> I think the main reason for supporting both was that some systems
> used to come with the former, and others with the latter. I'm not
> sure how that's today, but I'd be fine supporting just bison. Vern,
> what do you think?

IIRC, somebody also suggested to ship Bro with the generated scanner and
parser so that a default build wouldn't need to run flex/bison/yacc.
Don't know whether that's a good idea though.


cu
Gregor
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