When I integrate third-party dependencies I often port the build system to the build system I'm using. For projects made with autotools, that means ignoring the

When I integrate third-party dependencies I often port the build system to the build system I'm using. For projects made with autotools, that means ignoring the configure script, hand-writing a "correct" version of config.h.in, and reading Makefile.am. I'm sure this practice would offend some people. In my experience, this practice is quite common in industry. I've done this enough times that using Bison on Windows was no problem at all. In my case, I wasn't really interested in Bison itself, but I was using a different third-party dependency which itself depended on Bison.