Some of our targets use "bison --help", but they can't depend on
"bison" itself (to avoid additional requirements on the user), so
they used to call "make src/bison" in the commands. Then
concurrent builds may fail: one make might be aiming one of its
jobs at compiling src/bison, and another job at generating the man
page. If the latter is faster than the former, then we have two
makes that concurrently try to compile src/bison.
This might also be a more convincing explanation for the failure
described in the patch "build: fix paths".
* Makefile.am (SUFFIXES): Initialize.
* build-aux/move-if-change: New, symlink to gnulib's.
* build-aux/local.mk: Ship it.
* doc/common.x: Remove, merged into...
* doc/bison.x: here.
* doc/local.mk (doc/bison.help): New.
($(CROSS_OPTIONS_TEXI)): Depend on it.
Use src/bison.
(.x.1): Replace with...
(doc/bison.1): this explicit, simpler, target.
(common_dep): Remove, inlined where appropriate.
(SUFFIXES, PREPATH): Remove, unused.
When using $(top_builddir) inconsistently, Make (including GNU
Make) is sometimes confused. As a result it may want to build
lib/libbison.la and $(top_builddir)/lib/libbison.la (the same
file, different names) concurrently, which, amusingly enough,
might end with:
ranlib lib/libbison.a
ranlib lib/libbison.a
make[2]: *** [lib/libbison.a] Segmentation fault
on OS X.
* doc/local.mk, src/local.mk: Do not use $(top_builddir) when not
needed.
* doc/bison.texinfo (-g, -x): Add space before argument.
(Option Cross Key): Implement FIXME: listing directives also.
* build-aux/cross-options.pl: Read from <STDIN> rather than <>.
(Short Option): Special case -d. Put arguments inside @option.
(Bison Directive): Add column, automatically extracted from
src/scan-gram.l (actual name passed as the first argument)
with special case for %define.
* doc/local.mk (doc/cross-options.texi): Pass src/scan-gram.l
to build-aux/cross-options.pl.
* src/getargs.c (usage): Document limitations of cross-options.pl.
* src/scan-gram.l: Likewise.