From de37308722873ce8bbabd20017848484089696f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:58:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] if not yacc or bison is found, check if we *really* need it,
 and if we do we bail out!

---
 configure.ac | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index faca05c8e..c1ffe3de7 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1144,6 +1144,20 @@ fi
 
 AC_PROG_YACC
 
+if test -z "$YACC"
+then
+  AC_MSG_CHECKING([if OK to build without bison/yacc])
+  dnl no yacc is a big deal if we have no pre-fixed getdate.y
+  if test -r "$srcdir/lib/getdate.c"
+  then
+    dnl all is well, we don't have to generate it!
+    AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
+  else
+    AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
+    AC_MSG_ERROR([no yacc or bison found, can't build libcurl!])
+  fi
+fi
+
 dnl *************************************************************************
 dnl If the manual variable still is set, then we go with providing a built-in
 dnl manual