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Re: PCH merge bootstrap failure on systems without flex
- From: Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>
- To: dje at watson dot ibm dot com
- Cc: ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu, gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 20:22:13 -0700
- Subject: Re: PCH merge bootstrap failure on systems without flex
- References: <200206060236.WAA24398@makai.watson.ibm.com>
- Reply-to: Geoff Keating <geoffk at redhat dot com>
> cc: ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 22:36:28 -0400
> From: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>
>
> >>>>> Geoff Keating writes:
>
> Geoff> I intentionally used flex. I wasn't the first to introduce it into
> Geoff> mainline, though; that honour goes to Tim Josling who added
> Geoff> gcc/treelang/lex.l. If I got the makefiles right, gengtype-lex.c
> Geoff> should be pregenerated in the release tarball, just like the uses of
> Geoff> bison.
>
> GCC CVS frequently includes pre-processed files and gcc_update
> adjusts the timestamps so that one does not need the tool unless one is
> modifying the source file.
I believe the rule is that 'configure ; make' should work; so files
from autoconf, automake, and so on are in CVS, because configure needs
them, but files from bison, flex, and makeinfo are not, since the
makefiles can generate those.
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> <geoffk@redhat.com>