Re: Fwd: Suggestion for removing flex/bison as a dependancy

2007-11-27 Thread Ben Elliston
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 00:25 +0530, Karthik Kumar wrote: > I'm not saying we don't use flex/bison. I am only saying we can remove > that as a build dependancy; Many people have to use specific versions > of lex (flex) and yacc (bison) if they wish to compile gcc. I agree with you: end users should

Re: Fwd: Suggestion for removing flex/bison as a dependancy

2007-11-26 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Karthik" == Karthik Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Karthik> All directories which have configure scripts also have their Karthik> autoconf files (configure.ac) in the tree. And many Karthik> directories which have Makefile.in have Makefile.am as well. Yes. The rule is, or ought to be,

Fwd: Suggestion for removing flex/bison as a dependancy

2007-11-26 Thread Karthik Kumar
Hi, On Nov 27, 2007 12:13 AM, J.C. Pizarro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007, Karthik Kumar wrote: > > I would like to propose a set of diffs to enable compilation of gcc > > without requiring flex/bison. I feel that this would greatly benefit > > the variety of users building gcc