On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> I was just trying to compile a package, and configure failed with this
> error:
>
> checking for flex... no
> checking for lex... no
> checking for flex... ${SHELL}
>/home/skwar/RPM/BUILD/multi-gnome-terminal-1.3.11/missing --run flex
> checking for yywrap in -lfl... no
> checking for yywrap in -ll... no
> checking lex output file root... ./configure: ${SHELL}: command not found
> configure: error: cannot find output from ${SHELL}
>/home/skwar/RPM/BUILD/multi-gnome-terminal-1.3.11/missing --run flex; giving up
> Fehler: Bad exit status from /home/skwar/RPM/tmp/rpm-tmp.23810 (%build)
>
> IMO, rpm-build should require flex.
Think this through -- which package has the requirement -- the
target to be built, or rpm?
It is the package which you are building, and not rpm package
(which emits rpm-build package, which contains rpmbuild
binary) which BuildRequires it -- not rpm-build itself.
RPM will happily rebuild from sources without flex; seemingly
the target package will not.
-- Russ Herrold
