On Sun, 09 Apr 2006, Iain Hibbert wrote:
> > Perhaps your copy of arlex.c is older than your copy of arlex.l, in
> > which case deleting both and doing another cvs update might help.
> 
> Hm, I wonder if this is the cause of my troubles.. should "cvs update"
> preserve the server timestamps? It doesnt seem to be doing so (cvs
> checkout does) and since arlex.c arrives first it has the older
> timestamp..

No, cvs update doesn't preserve timestamps.

Please try the appended patch, which should stop the reachover make
from trying to run yacc or lex.

--apb (Alan Barrett)

Index: gnu/usr.bin/binutils/common/Makefile.prog
===================================================================
--- gnu/usr.bin/binutils/common/Makefile.prog	27 Nov 2003 15:02:21 -0000	1.7
+++ gnu/usr.bin/binutils/common/Makefile.prog	9 Apr 2006 10:29:49 -0000
@@ -49,8 +49,9 @@
 DPADD+=		${IBERTYOBJ}/libiberty.a
 .endif
 
-.y.c .l.c:
-
 .PATH: ${DIST}/binutils ${DIST}/binutils/doc
 
 .include <bsd.prog.mk>
+
+# Override the .y.c and .y.l rules *after* <bsd.prog.mk>.
+.y.c .l.c: