http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59862
--- Comment #7 from rguenther at suse dot de <rguenther at suse dot de> --- On Sun, 19 Jan 2014, dominiq at lps dot ens.fr wrote: > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59862 > > --- Comment #6 from Dominique d'Humieres <dominiq at lps dot ens.fr> --- > > The release tarball contain generated files so you don't need tools like > > flex or makeinfo to build GCC. Those are not present in SVN, so this is > > definitely not a packaging bug. > > Not sure to understand: gcc/gengtype-lex.c is in the tarball, but not in SVN. > From the above I understand that gcc/gengtype-lex.c should also not be in the > tarball. No, it is in the tarball so building does not require the tools to build it. > Is this correct? What could be the effect of gcc/gengtype-lex.c? That local flex is not used to build gengtype-lex.c from gengtype-lex.l