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.
Dear Karthik Kumar, why not flex/bison? It's bad idea not using them. The tools flex/bison are required as any tool ( e.g. patch, diff, binutils, sed, bash, gzip, cvs, m4, etc. ) and they are smaller executables to be stored in a CD. The generated files from flex/bison are a lot of "trashing hexadecimals" that don't must to be commited to any cvs/svn/git/hg because it consumes a lot of diskspace for only a modification of few lines of flex/bison sources. J.C.Pizarro
