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
ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu Qwest Solutions
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