[Nix-dev] Nix on ubuntu 11.04

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 03:45:36PM +0400, Michael Raskin wrote:
> >I tried nix version 0.16, first with the deb package then I compiled the sources myself.
> >I would like to try the svn trunk version of nix but I get the following compile error during the installation:
> >
> >make[3]: Entering directory `/home/maggesi/nix/src/libexpr'
> >false -v -o parser-tab.cc ./parser.y -d
> >make[3]: *** [parser-tab.hh] Error 1
> 
> You need to have flex and bison installed for parser regeneration

The source tarball does not require bison/flex, but the svn trunk does. And
Eelco made the trick of getting 'false' instead of 'bison', for the source
tarball not to require bison.

iirc.