Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, E. Weddington wrote:
>>>> My bad. I checked last night and you're correct. I don't need bison /
>>>> flex for GCC *releases*, but they are needed to build the weekly
>>>> snapshots.
>>> I consider this a bug, and will happily consider patches that address
>>> this (without requiring a full build as part of snapshot generation).
> Why would you consider this a bug?

Because snapshots should be easy to use and require few prerequisites,
similar to releases. IMHO.

> Why not just explicitly state that these tools (bison/flex) are required
> if building weekly snapshots?

We already do that.  Still, it would be nice to make snapshots "cheaper"
to use.

> If you still consider this a bug, do you want me to go ahead fill out a
> PR for this?

Please don't.  You're right in that it's actually more of a wish or
enhancement request than a bug.

Gerald
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