The book mentions in section 5.17 (8.0 and latest nightly) that you can run "make check" for Bison; however, this is sure to fail with an unpleasant make error at this stage *unless* you have Flex installed on your host system (and it's not listed in section 2.2, "Host System Requirements").
I see in section 6.29 (in 8.0; 6.31 in latest nightly) there's an explanation for this, a circular dependency between Flex and Bison. Since Flex isn't a host requirement, isn't built in Chapter 5, and has this unfortunate circular dependency, would it work to note in 5.17 that "make check" will fail and should simply be skipped? Thanks!
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