From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: configure.in: Look for flex Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:28:57 -0500 Message-ID: <873brjp846.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> References: <87u0jzj0z8.fsf@laas.fr> <87wtov1epk.fsf@zip.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118874508 30794 80.91.229.2 (15 Jun 2005 22:28:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:28:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 16 00:28:28 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DigMm-0004wM-82 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 00:28:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DigS4-0002J5-8U for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:33:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DigRb-0002CU-15 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:33:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DigRW-0002AS-7q for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:33:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DigRV-000286-Qz for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:33:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [70.85.129.156] (helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DigP7-0008Ui-Jo for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:30:37 -0400 Original-Received: from omen.defaultvalue.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE62491185; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:28:58 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from trouble.defaultvalue.org (omen.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.1]) by omen.defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 768E4409F; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:28:58 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by trouble.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 17F78410DE; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:28:57 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: ludovic.courtes@laas.fr (=?iso-8859-1?q?Ludovic_Court=E8s?=) In-Reply-To: <87wtov1epk.fsf@zip.com.au> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Thu, 16 Jun 2005 07:40:23 +1000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:5116 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:5116 Kevin Ryde writes: > (You need lex if you change the ".l", and in a maintainer build maybe, > so a configure check is good, but it shouldn't be an error.) Or, we might just add a test with a suitable error message to the make rule that uses flex... flex --version || ... But I'd guess that the normal -bash: flex: command not found might be informative enough. What would the configure check actually get us? -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel