Jamil Egdemir <uncleja...@gmail.com> skribis: >> Maybe we could specify a minimum version number in ‘HACKING’ though? I’m >> not sure which one. > > I was just looking through HACKING and it already mentions that "It's > probably not essential to have the latest version." I suppose that > covers it and provides fair notice of the issue but I missed it there. > Building from source isn't really 'hacking' in my book because it's so > routine.
Yes, but here you’re building from a Git checkout, which to us means ‘hacking’ in the sense that we provide self-contained tarballs if all you want is to install Guile. > Special Instructions For Some Systems ===================================== > > -- OpenBSD > > Since OpenBSD often lags behind other distributions due to security > audits it's a good idea to upgrade flex to the the latest version > available at http://flex.sourceforge.net/ before attempting to build > guile. (e.g. As of OpenBSD 5.6, flex-2.5.39 is known to work while 2.5.4 > is insufficient.) Rather than going into the specifics, I added a mention of a known-good version number in f57aba7. Thank you, Ludo’.
