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Re: raising minimum version of Flex
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 15:39 -0800, Mike Stump wrote:
> On Jan 21, 2007, at 11:48 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> > That doesn't sound right. It see flex being run every time I create a
> > new object directory, even though I don't modify the flex input files.
>
> Sounds like a bug. I did a quick check with a contrib/gcc_update --
> touch and a c,treelang build and sure enough, flex is run 5 times, so,
> unless this bug is fixed, everyone that has an older flex will get
> build errors. :-( I think this bug should be fixed before we update
> the minimum version requirements for flex. If it was, I'd support
> updating the min version required.
gcc_update's touch commands don't help, do they? I thought that the
Subversion repository did not even contain gengtype-lex.c and that flex
is *always* required for developer builds?
Ben