On 8/20/07, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, that is true, but if the timestamp of the generated file is older > than say the bison input Make will rebuild it. One just needs to > update the spkg after running bison and flex manually. But since the > spkg-install checks for bison and flex anyway that seems not worth it. > It only broken on William's Sun because that box had some seriously > outdated bison.
I actually ran into this on 2 or 3 other machines last week as well. Very old bison's are common. > > It is my understanding that the presence of flex and bison shouldn't > > be required at build time. > > > > With a little magic that can be accomplished. I would very much appreciate someone fixing the singular spkg so flex and bison are never needed. Maybe we could touch the generated files in spkg-install right at the beginnig? It would be very nice to remove those two dependencies. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
