[LLVMdev] Including flex/bison output in cvs

[Chris Lattner]

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Alexander Friedman wrote:
> Hi all,
> 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?

I agree that #1 and #2 are not wonderful solutions.  If including the 
output of bison/flex in the source distro will fix the problem for you, I 
would support that.  There are build changes required though and may be 
incompatibilities between unix bison and windows bison.  If these were 
worked out and solved, I would like to see this happen :)

-Chris

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