On 07/30/2012 08:37 AM, Akim Demaille wrote: > Do you think this is really an issue? I figured that someone > installing Bison is very likely to have Flex.
That's more likely than not these days, yes, but still, it's not a good sign that this failure occurred the first time I tried to install Bison. If it's just examples, then it'd be better if Bison's 'configure' merely issued a warning and then didn't run the example code on the user side? Are these examples extracted from the manual? if so, they can be done by the person making the tarball too. The general idea is to do as much as possible before generating the tarball, as this makes things easier on the installer. Also, suppose some day Flex requires Bison? :-)
