Re: patch to check for GNU flex

2010-11-20 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, On Fri 19 Nov 2010 23:39, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Flex is only needed when building from Git, not when building from a > tarball, which is why ‘configure’ doesn’t check for it. It's a common question, though. I have added a flex --version call to autogen.sh for this reason,

Re: patch to check for GNU flex

2010-11-19 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi! > > Flex is only needed when building from Git, not when building from a > tarball, which is why ‘configure’ doesn’t check for it.  (And Flex is Oh.. ok. Didn't know that. > not GNU, BTW.  ;-)) Didn't know that too! Thanks. :-) --

Re: patch to check for GNU flex

2010-11-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Flex is only needed when building from Git, not when building from a tarball, which is why ‘configure’ doesn’t check for it. (And Flex is not GNU, BTW. ;-)) Thanks, Ludo’.

patch to check for GNU flex

2010-11-19 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
Hi, configure currently is not checking for the presence of flex, but it is being used inside libguile/Makefile. The attached patch fixes this. thanks --   Ramakrishnan From 3c4b6f8165e785f602e576a51f645f463f01c836 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010