From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Re: Symlinks to generic names Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 14:40:39 +0100 Message-ID: <20140202134038.GA5291@intra> References: <20140201082105.GA1181@jocasta.intra> <87zjma3r40.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52932) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W9xHz-0005nv-Gz for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 08:40:51 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W9xHv-0004HY-5C for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 08:40:47 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87zjma3r40.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 08:34:23AM +0100, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: John Darrington skribis: =20 > Some software (rightly or wrongly) tries to build with "lex" and "ya= cc" . Guix does not provide these. > Instead we have "flex" and "bison". Most operating systems have sym= bolic links lex -> flex and yacc -> bison. > Shouldn't we provide these too? =20 We had a similar discussion for =E2=80=98cc=E2=80=99 vs. =E2=80=98gcc= =E2=80=99, but in practice =E2=80=98cc=E2=80=99 has been rare enough that it=E2=80=99s not worth bothering. =20 I believe Autoconf-based packages do not have any problems with =E2=80= =98flex=E2=80=99 and =E2=80=98bison=E2=80=99. What package was it? How hard is it to = work around? =20 We should at least be consistent. In guix we have a (hard) link from sh ->= bash For consistency I believe we should also have csh -> tcsh lex -> flex yacc -> bison cc -> gcc egrep -> grep Then there are various versioned commands: python3 -> python wish8.6 -> wish Otherwise, individual packages are forced to do substitutes - not particula= rly onerous, but it=20 makes the maintenance a pain. Just my $0.02 J' --=20 PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3=20 fingerprint =3D 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlLuStYACgkQimdxnC3oJ7OqfACdExCYqDd8pf788chN1O4QngD0 xqEAnjHsOpuGD0r4eiySm3XJ8SRqTXId =yGvF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7--