PCH merge bootstrap failure on systems without flex

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> We want generated files in tar files so that you can build GCC from
> a release tarball with a minimum of installed tools.
> [...]
> We've had this debate before; let's not to it again.

Well, that we've had this debate before doesn't mean we came to a commonly
accepted conclusion.

Requiring flex where we already require bison is one thing, but requiring
a full development chain including the auto-tools is something we should
carefully evaluate.

> We don't want them in CVS because we assume people using CVS are
> developers and we assume developers can get the tools.

This assumption neglects testers (of which we have too few, especially on
not-so-common platforms, and many of which use guest accounts with limited
resources to perform their testing).

Gerald
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