Hi all, Is there any particular reason why the flex-2.6.0 easyconfigs depend on Bison rather than builddepend?
My understanding is that flex can be happily used w/o Bison, and this corresponds to what distro packagers think. In Debian, for example, Bison is only a 'suggests' of the flex package [1] -- the most loose type of dependency supported (declares that a package may be more useful when the suggested package is also installed, but it is perfectly reasonable to install without). However, it is listed under 'Build-Depends' in the control file. That said, I believe M4 is actually a real dependency, see [2]. Markus [1] https://packages.debian.org/jessie/flex [2] http://flex.sourceforge.net/manual/M4-Dependency.html#M4-Dependency -- Dr. Markus Geimer Juelich Supercomputing Centre Institute for Advanced Simulation Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich, Germany Phone: +49-2461-61-1773 Fax: +49-2461-61-6656 E-mail: [email protected] WWW: http://www.fz-juelich.de/jsc/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Marquardt (Vorsitzender), Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
