bug#21373: compile for development version from git fails on OpenBSD

2015-10-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Jamil Egdemir 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 n

bug#21373: compile for development version from git fails on OpenBSD

2015-10-30 Thread Jamil Egdemir
Ludo', > We cannot use AC_PROG_LEX because Flex is not a dependency when building > from a tarball. AC_PROG_LEX would look for flex/lex when running > ‘configure’, even though it’s not actually needed. Mm... good point. Ok, scratch that idea. > Maybe we could specify a minimum version numb

bug#21373: compile for development version from git fails on OpenBSD

2015-10-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Jamil Egdemir skribis: > I was using the flex that came with OpenBSD 5.6 which was 2.5.4 so I > pulled down and installed flex-2.5.39. This got me past these errors > though I'm not sure if this is associated with differences between the > OpenBSD brand of flex or just a versioning issue. If it

bug#21373: compile for development version from git fails on OpenBSD

2015-08-29 Thread Jamil Egdemir
to...@tuxteam.de writes: >> flex -t ./c-tokenize.lex > c-tokenize.c || { rm c-tokenize.c; false; } >> "./c-tokenize.lex", line 1: unrecognized '%' directive >> "./c-tokenize.lex", line 7: bad character: # >> "./c-tokenize.lex", line 7: unknown error processing section 1 >> "./c-tokenize.lex", lin

bug#21373: compile for development version from git fails on OpenBSD

2015-08-29 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 09:47:51PM -0400, Jamil Egdemir wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I just pulled the latest from the git repo and the build failed on > OpenBSD 5.6 (output from dmesg is all the way at the bottom if that > helps): > > $ git clone http://gi

bug#21373: compile for development version from git fails on OpenBSD

2015-08-28 Thread Jamil Egdemir
Hi Guys, I just pulled the latest from the git repo and the build failed on OpenBSD 5.6 (output from dmesg is all the way at the bottom if that helps): $ git clone http://git.sv.gnu.org/r/guile.git $ cd guile $ autoreconf --install $ ./configure --prefix=/home/me/usr \ --with-libltdl-prefix=