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Re: Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]
- From: "E. Weddington" <eric at umginc dot net>
- To: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 13:20:20 -0600
- Subject: Re: Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]
On 29 May 2003 at 13:27, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
> To develop/modify GCC (all of the above tools plus):
> ------------------------------------------------------
> GNU Bison version 1.28 (or later)
> Flex version 2.5.4 (or later)
>
> Necessary when modifying *.y (bison) or *.l (flex).
>
> Necessary to build GCC during development because the generated output
> files are not included in the cvs repository. They are included in
> releases.
> ------------------------------------------------------
IIRC, bison and flex were both needed to *build* gcc for the avr target on
mingw, not just to develop / modify. I don't know if this is a general case.
Eric Weddington