Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]

[E. Weddington]

On 29 May 2003 at 20:51, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:

>  > From: "E. Weddington" <eric@umginc.net>
>  > 
>  > On 29 May 2003 at 13:27, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
>  > 
>  > > To develop/modify GCC (all of the above tools plus):
>  > > ------------------------------------------------------
>  > > GNU Bison version 1.28 (or later)
>  > > Flex version 2.5.4 (or later)
>  > > 
>  > > Necessary when modifying *.y (bison) or *.l (flex).
>  > > 
>  > > Necessary to build GCC during development because the generated output > >
>  files are not included in the cvs repository.  They are included in > >
>  releases. > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > IIRC,
>  bison and flex were both needed to *build* gcc for the avr target on > mingw,
>  not just to develop / modify. I don't know if this is a general case. > Eric
>  Weddington
> 
> This shouldn't be required for released versions of GCC in any
> configuration.  What version of GCC were you using?  Are you sure your
> timestamps were correct?

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. So I didn't 
interpret your description correctly because I don't necessarily develop or 
modify GCC. So perhaps this?:

To develop/modify/build snapshots of GCC (all of the above tools plus):

Sorry for my confusion.

Eric Weddington