Re: bison?

[Jason <jason@njkfrudils.plus.com>]

On Wednesday 21 July 2010 16:47:14 you wrote:
> On 21 July 2010 12:51, Bill Allombert
> 
> <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:17:11PM +0100, John Cremona wrote:
> >> When did bison become a prerequisite for building pari?  I see that it
> >> now is (in the svn development version).  It's not a problem for me
> >> personally since I only use Linux and bison is standard, but it has an
> >> effect on Sage (which does not have bison as a prerequisite).   Are
> >> there alternatives?
> > 
> > Bison is not a prerequisite for building PARI. However, if you use the
> > SVN version you need perl and bison (>=2.1). If Sage use a prope PARI
> > tarball, then it will not need bison since the bison-generated file will
> > be included in the tarball.
> 
> That's very helpful -- thanks or explaining it.  (Perhaps Jason meant
> the same thing, but I did not understand his reply).
> 
> I am keen to use a recent svn because of some specific changes and
> bugfixes.  Do you know when there will next be a proper PARI tarball
> released, or can I make my own (as Jason suggested)?  (Is what "make
> release means?)
> 
> John

yeah , thats what I ment , see

http://code.google.com/p/sage-windows/source/browse/packages/branches/pari-
svn/README.buildpackage
> 
> > The same is true for GP2C (the SVN version require autoconf, automake,
> > perl, bison and flex).
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Bill.