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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Symlinks to generic names
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 08:34:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zjma3r40.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140201082105.GA1181@jocasta.intra> (John Darrington's message of "Sat, 1 Feb 2014 09:21:06 +0100")

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?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-02  7:39 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 [this message]
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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