Re: two simple flex and bison patches

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:

> Hi,
>
> since lots of people get errors during the build of libIDL in garnome 
> because of missing flex, I've made two really small patches to 
> configure.in in two modules that check and fatally fail during configure 
> if these are missing.
>
> I'm posting them here because it'd sure be nice if they got in before 
> 2.0.2 and the next garnome, instead of lying around for weeks.  They're 
> pretty trivial, but I don't have any experience on non-i686-linux boxes so 
> please take a quick look at it to make sure they also look right for 
> solaris and others.
>  
Wouldn't it be better to just include the generated yacc or lex files in 
the source distribution and use those if the required tool is not available?

James.

--
Email: james daa com au              | Linux.conf.au   http://linux.conf.au/
WWW:   http://www.daa.com.au/~james/ | Jan 22-25   Perth, Western Australia.