Bug#538778: antlr3: ANTLR v3 C header files and C run-time libraries are missing

[Julien BLACHE]

Vsevolod Krishchenko <crpg at aha.ru> wrote:

Hi,

> Antlr v3 could generate C parsers. Still, there are no anlr C
> headers in Debian (antlr3.h and so on). C ANTLR runtime libraries
> are also missed.

See ITP #494263.

The C runtime won't enter Debian until the next ANTLR v3 release and
the upload of that version of ANTLR to Debian. It's unclear when this
will happen, though, as:
 - the Debian-java maintainer behind ANTLR is MIA;
 - ANTLR upstream switched to Maven for its build system, which is a
   real PITA for distributions like us;
 - the ANTLR upstream tarball for 3.1.3 is missing files, like the
   Maven ANTLR plugin and the master POM.

Updating ANTLR in Debian is a major task and nobody has committed to
doing it yet; ANTLR 3.0.x is so buggy that it's worthless.

JB.

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