Re: gnats/303: GNATS 4.0 Makefile Error

Re: gnats/303: GNATS 4.0 Makefile Error

[Milan Zamazal]

>>>>> "ko" == kevin olds <kevin_olds@emeraldsolutions.com> writes:

    ko> I get an error saying that -o is an illegal option for yacc.

Would anyone complain if we solved the problem by documenting that Bison
and Flex are needed for complete GNATS rebuilding?  Trying to support
all the proprietary versions of yacc and lex seems to be a useless
effort to me.  I think it's not necessary, since the tarball will
contain the generated *.c files, with a proper time stamp.  People
interested in development can install Bison and Flex easily.

Regards,

Milan Zamazal

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Re: gnats/303: GNATS 4.0 Makefile Error

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 13:00 30.11.2001 +0100, Milan Zamazal wrote:
> >>>>> "ko" == kevin olds <kevin_olds@emeraldsolutions.com> writes:
>
>     ko> I get an error saying that -o is an illegal option for yacc.
>
>Would anyone complain if we solved the problem by documenting that Bison
>and Flex are needed for complete GNATS rebuilding?  Trying to support
>all the proprietary versions of yacc and lex seems to be a useless
>effort to me.  I think it's not necessary, since the tarball will
>contain the generated *.c files, with a proper time stamp.  People
>interested in development can install Bison and Flex easily.

Agreed. Time spent solving this would surely be better spent on all the 
other small things that's holding up 4.0. Let's worry about this limitation 
after 4.0.

- Yngve


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Re: gnats/303: GNATS 4.0 Makefile Error

[Milan Zamazal]

>>>>> "YS" == Yngve Svendsen <yngve.svendsen@clustra.com> writes:

    YS> Let's worry about this limitation after 4.0.

Personally, I'm not going to worry about it anytime.  (Of course,
anybody else can volunteer and provide appropriate patches.)

>>>>> "DB" == Dirk Bergstrom <dirk@juniper.net> writes:

    DB> put another way, if this impacts folks that pull the tree from
    DB> cvs, but *not* folks who download the source tarball,

This is what I meant, provided the source tarball is available only for
released versions (including beta versions).

    DB> i don't want to see gnats become one of those annoying packages
    DB> that requires the user to download all sorts of packages just to
    DB> see if it's worth using (like gnucash).  it ought to build on
    DB> OS's like solaris without a pitched battle.

Yes, this is required by the GNU coding standards; but it needn't apply
to development snapshots, IMO.

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Milan Zamazal

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RE: gnats/303: GNATS 4.0 Makefile Error

[Dirk Bergstrom]

> Would anyone complain if we solved the problem by documenting 
> that Bison
> and Flex are needed for complete GNATS rebuilding?  Trying to support
> all the proprietary versions of yacc and lex seems to be a useless
> effort to me.  I think it's not necessary, since the tarball will
> contain the generated *.c files, with a proper time stamp.  People
> interested in development can install Bison and Flex easily.

i'm not quite sure what the impact of this would be.  if people could
still download, compile and install the source tarball without needing
bison & flex, then i would have no objections.  if it means that bison &
flex are required for *all* source builds, it would be a hindrance to
the casual consumer, and would make the package less valuable, imho.

put another way, if this impacts folks that pull the tree from cvs, but
*not* folks who download the source tarball, that's fine with me.

i don't want to see gnats become one of those annoying packages that
requires the user to download all sorts of packages just to see if it's
worth using (like gnucash).  it ought to build on OS's like solaris
without a pitched battle.

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