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Re: PCH merge bootstrap failure on systems without flex
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>, <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>, <geoffk at redhat dot com>, <gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:06:32 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: PCH merge bootstrap failure on systems without flex
On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> We want generated files in tar files so that you can build GCC from
> a release tarball with a minimum of installed tools.
> [...]
> We've had this debate before; let's not to it again.
Well, that we've had this debate before doesn't mean we came to a commonly
accepted conclusion.
Requiring flex where we already require bison is one thing, but requiring
a full development chain including the auto-tools is something we should
carefully evaluate.
> We don't want them in CVS because we assume people using CVS are
> developers and we assume developers can get the tools.
This assumption neglects testers (of which we have too few, especially on
not-so-common platforms, and many of which use guest accounts with limited
resources to perform their testing).
Gerald
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