PCH merge bootstrap failure on systems without flex

Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu
Wed Jun 5 19:59:00 GMT 2002


 > 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.
 > David

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?

		--Kaveh
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Kaveh R. Ghazi			Director of Systems Architecture
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