>Yes. Bison and flex are not required when building from a source >tarball, because the tarball includes the generated files. If you're >building from a git checkout, however, then you need bison and flex. You >will get an error at make, and IIRC a warning at ./configure
Thanks for the quick reply. For curiosity reasons why the differentiation between tar and git. Regards On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 3:18 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakan...@vmware.com> wrote: On 01/28/2014 04:14 PM, salah jubeh wrote: > Today, I have noticed that ./configure does not return an error when bison > and flex are missing. Is this intended ? Yes. Bison and flex are not required when building from a source tarball, because the tarball includes the generated files. If you're building from a git checkout, however, then you need bison and flex. You will get an error at make, and IIRC a warning at ./configure. - Heikki
