Berkeley Yacc is the best yacc variant available for Linux systems, compared to bison.
Also known as byacc, Berkeley Yacc is able to avoid dependencies of a peculiar compiler.
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· package/debian/changelog, VERSION, package/byacc.spec: bump
· aclocal.m4: adapt tweak from Dave Becket to work around long-ago breakage in "new" autoconf.
· output.c: fix bogus #include if "-i" is given but not "-d" (report by Richard Mitton).
· also while testing that, found a case where the union_file is unused; added a check for address that.
· test/ftp.output, test/ftp.tab.c, test/ftp.tab.h: regen
· test/ftp.y: fix most compiler warnings for "make check_make"
· test/calc1.tab.c: regen
· test/calc1.y: fix most compiler warnings for "make check_make"
· test/calc.tab.c, test/calc1.tab.c, test/calc2.tab.c, test/calc3.tab.c, test/code_calc.code.c, test/code_error.code.c, test/error.tab.c, test/ftp.tab.c, test/grammar.tab.c, test/pure_calc.tab.c, test/pure_error.tab.c, test/quote_calc-s.tab.c, test/quote_calc.tab.c, test/quote_calc2-s.tab.c, test/quote_calc2.tab.c, test/quote_calc3-s.tab.c, test/quote_calc3.tab.c, test/quote_calc4-s.tab.c, test/quote_calc4.tab.c: regen
· skeleton.c: quiet a gcc conversion-warning in yygrowstack()
· configure: regen
· aclocal.m4: another fix for CF_GCC_VERSION to handle Debian's modification of gcc message.