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Re: Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]
> From: "E. Weddington" <eric@umginc.net>
>
> 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
This shouldn't be required for released versions of GCC in any
configuration. What version of GCC were you using? Are you sure your
timestamps were correct?
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Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu