Re: new release?

[Paul Fox]

ken wrote:
 > >But here's the thing:  when configure doesn't find lex or flex, it
 > >sets the value of the program to ":".  wth?   Wouldn't "false" be
 > >a far more effective substitute?  If there's a way to tell configure
 > >to change that behavior, we should consider it.
 > 
 > This behavior is part of autoconf.  From the documentation for AC_PROG_LEX:
...
 > Fixing this for the general case would be a bit of a pain; I'm not
 > sure there's a wonderful answer.  We could do something like outputting
 > a warning in configure if LEX equals ':' warning that you will need that
 > tool if you are building from a repository checkout, but that presumes
 > that people would actually read such a message :-)

Okay.  You convinced me.  :-)

paul
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