From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 98573 invoked by alias); 1 Jan 2018 00:55:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 96506 invoked by uid 89); 1 Jan 2018 00:55:12 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_SHORT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: mail-lf0-f66.google.com Received: from mail-lf0-f66.google.com (HELO mail-lf0-f66.google.com) (209.85.215.66) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:55:10 +0000 Received: by mail-lf0-f66.google.com with SMTP id u84so32761605lff.7 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 16:55:10 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=KEq4ubUMzhrmL+LFcIB2W2ckLplDpJotiQbDcisN7bk=; b=ALk8OEIADWo4P8QUFU649d44CLodBMG/VjtF0FyTokEaD2TvR8Nd7iW/kH8ufRO5C4 okOXRtEpPTdxa3VmDtZRpn6EASHjNxHYYyiC2p/wC8VjQz1sQG9e1wBl3OpkCfFhcJa3 Ge4CZaxj0YqzB/9Ig8be2TwRYXenNt9nCNTRh7LaDYCgvhhFdICYCAlc5j8EuGaysWQA hnxkHVy10UrouwhrDIB1rx4ttkNGzYWhBp36/V6KozG/T9dBPlGZro3kFlpwyNGaTpg8 GubEgE4FdLX1263CMfapDRm9viiI6nVOhgWkoOq3T2DAHZce5sWGOP9tWQcUHCBNvD7E HiAQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AKGB3mKfSlYiF78O2NMaI8Nc0FbNId8EzErJAgAeG+TnGmF3pQMH27g1 k4pALePlwgajaoeEfgt1Qt97vajbr3vk/O2rptCTVQ== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACJfBovF1r8S1gQTKp86rQU3iJ5dNZ++I2olUIEADLab8kymHVQibMCRMPKhK7soeCJWLjVzojPiNQ6HzuTp0gGvnSQ= X-Received: by 10.25.162.202 with SMTP id l193mr941761lfe.45.1514768108272; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 16:55:08 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.25.109.25 with HTTP; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 16:55:07 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <5a49802e.82f5ca0a.48f96.8a5b@mx.google.com> References: <5a49802e.82f5ca0a.48f96.8a5b@mx.google.com> From: Stephen John Smoogen Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:55:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: flex package POSIX violation To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-01/txt/msg00001.txt.bz2 On 31 December 2017 at 19:26, Steven Penny wrote: > On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 18:43:00, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> >> Which is why I wanted to see where this was going. Are these fixes >> just looking for low hanging fruit to be POSIX compliant, or are these >> needing larger amounts of resources to be 'compliant'? If the >> flex->lex link fails some sort of POSIX test, are people going to need >> Cygwin porters to fix those? Also is there an easy line for "this is >> compliant enough?" > > > Here is a simple demonstration of the problem: > > $ cat xr.l > %option main > %% > ya printf("zu"); > %% > > $ make xr > lex -t xr.l > xr.c > /bin/sh: lex: command not found > make: *** [: xr.c] Error 127 > rm xr.c > > now of course you can work around this by "make LEX=flex xr" or similar, but > no > major Linux distro makes you do this, as they already include "lex" > vis-a-vis > the symlink to flex. > OK that makes it a clearer and tangible problem to me. Thank you for putting up with my questions. > [1] http://gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Implicit-Variables > > > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple