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 not have to have these tools installed in order to build GCC. However, we expect that most end users are building GCC *releases*, where we provide the generated files in the release tarball. If you check GCC out of the Subversion repository, you are now classed as a developer and you are expected to have those tools installed. I don't think that is an unreasonable assumption. Ben
