[HACKERS] bison, flex and ./configure

2014-01-28 Thread salah jubeh
Hello, Today, I have noticed that ./configure does not return an error when bison and flex are missing.  Is this intended ? OS: Ubuntu 13.04 Regards

Re: [HACKERS] bison, flex and ./configure

2014-01-28 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
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

Re: [HACKERS] bison, flex and ./configure

2014-01-28 Thread salah jubeh
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

Re: [HACKERS] bison, flex and ./configure

2014-01-28 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 01/28/2014 04:28 PM, salah jubeh wrote: 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

Re: [HACKERS] bison, flex and ./configure

2014-01-28 Thread salah jubeh
Hello Heikki, Thanks for sharing. Reagrds On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 3:48 PM, Heikki Linnakangas hlinnakan...@vmware.com wrote: On 01/28/2014 04:28 PM, salah jubeh wrote: Yes. Bison and flex are not required when building from a source tarball, because the tarball includes the