FWIW, you should not need lex or yacc to build the thrift compiler from a release tarball, only to do development on it.
On 05/05/2011 04:49 PM, Bjørn Borud wrote: > lex/yacc is "to be expected in some form" on on a subset of > unixen, so I would hesitate to use the word "standard". everywhere > else it is something you have to install -- or upgrade, since if it is > on an old, or non open source OS, it is likely to be some antiquated > relic. >