rpms/bison/devel bison.spec,1.34,1.35

[Petr Machata]

Author: pmachata

Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/bison/devel
In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv27530

Modified Files:
	bison.spec 
Log Message:
More merge review changes.



Index: bison.spec
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RCS file: /cvs/pkgs/rpms/bison/devel/bison.spec,v
retrieving revision 1.34
retrieving revision 1.35
diff -u -r1.34 -r1.35
--- bison.spec	15 Sep 2008 13:17:57 -0000	1.34
+++ bison.spec	15 Sep 2008 15:21:02 -0000	1.35
@@ -38,6 +38,16 @@
 is not required by all Bison-generated parsers, but may be employed by
 simple programs to supply minimal support for the generated parsers.
 
+# -ly is kept static.  It only contains two symbols: main and yyerror,
+# and both of these are extremely simple (couple lines of C total).
+# It doesn't really pay off to introduce a shared library for that.
+#
+# Therefore -devel subpackage could have been created as -static, but
+# the split was done in Jan 2005, which predates current guidelines.
+# Besides there is logic to that: the library is devel in the sense
+# that the generated parser could be distributed together with other
+# sources, and only bison-devel would be necessary to wrap the build.
+
 %package runtime
 Summary: Runtime support files used by Bison-generated parsers
 Group: Development/Libraries