[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 22405 - simons - nix/trunk

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 06/25/2010 12:24 AM, Peter Simons wrote:

>  >> configure.ac: make flex and bison required programs
>  >
>  > Why is this?  It doesn't seem desirable to me.
> 
> well, I couldn't build Nix without flex and bison, and fairly new
> versions at that, so I reckoned these tools are required. I was building
> from SVN, though, which might behave differently than building from a
> release archive. 

Yes, the generated parser/lexer is included in the source tarball so you don't
need flex/bison in that case.

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