From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Ryde Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: configure.in: Look for flex Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:53:35 +1000 Message-ID: <87u0jxoo3k.fsf@zip.com.au> References: <87u0jzj0z8.fsf@laas.fr> <87wtov1epk.fsf@zip.com.au> <871x7220ry.fsf@laas.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118966443 4322 80.91.229.2 (17 Jun 2005 00:00:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 00:00:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 17 02:00:40 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dj4Hl-0004TR-KE for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 02:00:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dj4NG-0002F9-TK for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:06:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dj4KE-0001fx-1Z for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:03:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dj4K1-0001WN-2m for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:03:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dj4Jv-0001Tj-FG for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:02:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [61.8.0.84] (helo=mailout1.pacific.net.au) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dj4D0-00022c-NV for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 19:55:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailproxy2.pacific.net.au (mailproxy2.pacific.net.au [61.8.0.87]) by mailout1.pacific.net.au (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-1) with ESMTP id j5GNrjuF028461; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:53:45 +1000 Original-Received: from localhost (ppp2783.dyn.pacific.net.au [61.8.39.131]) by mailproxy2.pacific.net.au (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-1) with ESMTP id j5GNrhh4012243; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:53:44 +1000 Original-Received: from gg by localhost with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Dj4Ax-0000WV-00; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:53:35 +1000 Original-To: ludovic.courtes@laas.fr (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: <871x7220ry.fsf@laas.fr> (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s's?= message of "Thu, 16 Jun 2005 09:56:01 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) 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:5120 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:5120 ludovic.courtes@laas.fr (Ludovic Court=E8s) writes: > > Since flex is needed when building from CVS and not needed when building > from a distribution, what about something like the following: I think AM_PROG_LEX probably does everything you need, with no explicit warning code needed. It looks like it sets up the "missing" script to give a warning in those cases where lex is wanted. > Then this means that the error message would only be triggered for > people who passed the `--enable-maintainer-mode' option to `configure' > (which /should/ be the case for people building from CVS, but I'm not > sure this is actually the case since I didn't even use it myself ;-)). If the generated file is checked into the cvs and the dates are right then you won't need flex for a maintainer build, unless you actually change the source. (Maintainer-mode is mostly about regenerating configure, Makefile.in, etc when the inputs change.) > BTW, why is the flex-generated file included in the distribution? Reducing dependencies (see "Releases" in the gnu standards manual), apparently.=20=20 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel