Request for an update bison package

[Marco Atzeri]

On 08.06.2021 19:57, Song Yang via Cygwin wrote:
> Dear Cygwin,
> 
> I am a fan of Bison and Flex. The current version of Bison on Cygwin is
> from 2015. Can someone update it?

the maintainer is still around. Eric ?

> 
> I am interested in trying to update it myself. Is their a tutorial for that?

https://cygwin.com/packaging-contributors-guide.html

for what I see from the source package it was a vanilla build.
If it is not changed it should be enough to download the

  bison-3.0.4-1-src.tar.xz

file, extract the bison.cygport, update to latest version 3.7.6
and run it with cygport

  cygport bison.cygport download all check

> 
> Thank you,
> Song
> 

Regards
Marco