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From: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Symlinks to generic names
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 08:46:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140202074657.GA3860@intra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zjma3r40.fsf@gnu.org>

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On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 08:34:23AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
     John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:
     
     > Some software (rightly or wrongly) tries to build with "lex" and "yacc" .  Guix does not provide these.
     > Instead we have "flex" and "bison".  Most operating systems have symbolic links lex -> flex and yacc -> bison.
     > Shouldn't we provide these too?
     
     We had a similar discussion for ‘cc’ vs. ‘gcc’, but in practice ‘cc’ has
     been rare enough that it’s not worth bothering.

     I believe Autoconf-based packages do not have any problems with ‘flex’
     and ‘bison’.  What package was it?  How hard is it to work around?
     
It's probably not too hard.  It just seems to me, that it makes more sense to do the 
workaround in 1 package, than in N.

J'

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-02  7:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-01  8:21 Symlinks to generic names John Darrington
2014-02-01 18:28 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2014-02-02  0:32   ` Mark H Weaver
2014-02-02  7:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-02-02  7:46   ` John Darrington [this message]
2014-02-02 18:06     ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-02-02 13:40   ` John Darrington
2014-02-02 16:42     ` Andreas Enge
2014-02-02 17:47       ` John Darrington
2014-02-03 13:46         ` Ludovic Courtès

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