John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis: > Some software (rightly or wrongly) tries to build with "lex" and "yacc" . > Guix does not provide these. > Instead we have "flex" and "bison". Most operating systems have symbolic > links lex -> flex and yacc -> bison. > Shouldn't we provide these too?
We had a similar discussion for ‘cc’ vs. ‘gcc’, but in practice ‘cc’ has been rare enough that it’s not worth bothering. I believe Autoconf-based packages do not have any problems with ‘flex’ and ‘bison’. What package was it? How hard is it to work around? Thanks, Ludo’.
