Racc and JRuby

[Daniel Carrera]

Hi all,

IIRC, JRuby is a Java implementation of Ruby 1.6. The Racc web page says that
it requires either Ruby 1.8 or the -E flag.

Does this mean that I can reasonably expect to use Racc to create a BibTeX
parser that would be run using JRuby?

I just want to make sure I'm not overlooking something. This is all new to
me.

Cheers,

 

[Mauricio Fernández]

Hi all,

IIRC, JRuby is a Java implementation of Ruby 1.6. The Racc web page says that
it requires either Ruby 1.8 or the -E flag.

That's because parsers generated with racc require some runtime
support... If you installed racc (or are using 1.8) you have that already.
Otherwise the -E flag makes a standalone parser.

Does this mean that I can reasonably expect to use Racc to create a BibTeX
parser that would be run using JRuby?

You could test the parsers in sample/; they should normally run ok.

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