[LLVMdev] Including flex/bison output in cvs

[Alexander Friedman]

Hi all,

At the moment, LLVM includes the .l, .y sources that are compiled by
flex and biston via make. This is fine for most unix developers. For
windows developers, it's a bit more of a pain to download flex/bison,
but is still a one-time thing.

However, anyone releasing an llvm frontend will require their users to
have flex/bison. Most (but not all) unix boxes have them, but almost
no windows boxes have them. This requires either

1) Forcing the user to dowload flex/bison (bad)

2) Distributing flex/bison with the front-end (not as bad, but a pain)

3) or, and this seems like a simple fix, just distribute the output of
flex and bison along with the source. This is analagous to
distributing "configure" along with "configure.ac".

What do you guys think?

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-Alex