From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Symlinks to generic names Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 08:34:23 +0100 Message-ID: <87zjma3r40.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140201082105.GA1181@jocasta.intra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43560) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W9reO-0003Xp-UN for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 02:39:39 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W9reI-0002kJ-PK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 02:39:32 -0500 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([141.255.128.1]:54626) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W9reI-0002k8-It for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 02:39:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20140201082105.GA1181@jocasta.intra> (John Darrington's message of "Sat, 1 Feb 2014 09:21:06 +0100") 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: John Darrington Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org John Darrington 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 =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. I believe Autoconf-based packages do not have any problems with =E2=80=98fl= ex=E2=80=99 and =E2=80=98bison=E2=80=99. What package was it? How hard is it to work = around? Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.