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Re: PCH merge bootstrap failure on systems without flex
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- To: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>, dje at watson dot ibm dot com, geoffk at redhat dot com
- Cc: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 19:41:21 -0700
- Subject: Re: PCH merge bootstrap failure on systems without flex
We do that e.g. for autoconf and automake output, but not for bison
generated files (in CVS.) But those are more fundamental to the build
process I guess. Do you think we should include the flex output in
CVS?
Definitely not.
In fact, we should consider removing *all* generated files from CVS
at some point, including "configure". (Unfortunately, right now,
differents parts of the tree require different versions of autoconf.)
We want generated files in tar files so that you can build GCC from
a release tarball with a minimum of installed tools. We don't want
them in CVS because we assume people using CVS are developers and we
assume developers can get the tools. And having the generated files
in CVS has lead to all kinds of problems over time.
We've had this debate before; let's not to it again.
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Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
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