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From: Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Symlinks to generic names
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 22:28:15 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r47mads0.fsf@karetnikov.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140201082105.GA1181@jocasta.intra> (John Darrington's message of "Sat, 1 Feb 2014 09:21:06 +0100")

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> 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?

I guess this should solve the problem (untested):

(inputs
  `(("lex" ,flex)
    ("yacc" ,bison)
    ...))


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-01 18:22 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 [this message]
2014-02-02  0:32   ` Mark H Weaver
2014-02-02  7:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-02-02  7:46   ` John Darrington
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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