[Bug other/59862] Code does not compile with 4.8.1 tarball release but compiles with 4.8.1 SVN release

[rguenther at suse dot de]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59862

--- Comment #7 from rguenther at suse dot de <rguenther at suse dot de> ---
On Sun, 19 Jan 2014, dominiq at lps dot ens.fr wrote:

> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59862
> 
> --- Comment #6 from Dominique d'Humieres <dominiq at lps dot ens.fr> ---
> > The release tarball contain generated files so you don't need tools like
> > flex or makeinfo to build GCC.  Those are not present in SVN, so this is
> > definitely not a packaging bug.
> 
> Not sure to understand: gcc/gengtype-lex.c is in the tarball, but not in SVN.
> From the above I understand that gcc/gengtype-lex.c should also not be in the
> tarball.

No, it is in the tarball so building does not require the tools to
build it.

> Is this correct? What could be the effect of gcc/gengtype-lex.c?

That local flex is not used to build gengtype-lex.c from gengtype-lex.l