Re: make error with Flex??

[Nikos Balkanas]

Absolutely correct. Was posted as a make problem and forgot all about the
configure step. Still the best bet would be to follow the steps outlined
until the broken configurator gets fixed.

Nikos Balkanas.
----- Original Message -----
From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Cc: Tho Truong <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: make error with Flex??


> On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Nikos Balkanas wrote:
>
> > Pretty straight forward. The shell (sh) is complaining that it cannot
find
> > yacc to execute yacc -d parse.y.
>
> I don't quite agree to this statement.  After all, one of the central
> reasons of existence for the "configure" script is to detect the presence
> of 'yacc' and/or 'bison', and adapt the Makefile it generates accordingly.
>
> In other words: if there is no 'yacc' on the machine, then configure
> should never have written a Makefile that tries to run it.  It should
> either fall back to the distributed, pre-yacc'ed version of the parser, or
> print out an unmistakable message and terminate itself.
>
> If it tries to run a non-existing 'yacc', that's essentially a bug in the
> 'configure.in' script or in autoconf.
>
> --
> Hans-Bernhard Broeker (address@hidden)
> Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.
>
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