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>Stefan, seems a *huge* portion of packages is requiring flex to build?
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Well, some do, most don't. I'm almost done with flex, these are the
package left which require flex:
fdutils-5.4-4mdk.src.rpm.txt:make[1]: lex: Command not found
flex-2.5.4a-15mdk.src.rpm.txt:make: yacc: Command not found
gnome-pim-1.4.0-4mdk.src.rpm.txt:./configure: flex: command not found
gnome-pim-1.4.0-4mdk.src.rpm.txt:checking lex output file root...
./configure: lex: command not found
HDF-4.1r4-8mdk.src.rpm.txt:make[3]: flex: Command not found
nmh-1.0.4-5mdk.src.rpm.txt:/bin/sh: lex: command not found
vile-9.2-9mdk.src.rpm.txt:checking lex output file root... ./configure:
lex: command not found
>It's similar to every package requiring make to build...... if it's so,
>why not just left it as it is?
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Good point. The issue is: (as has been discussed before), where do we
want to go with the BuildRequires?
What I'm trying todo is define a number of packages that are always
required to build RPM's (rpm-build, automake, autoconf, gettext, etc).
When these packages are installed the src.rpm's should be able to build
once the BuildRequires are installed.
Since only a small number of packages (49 + 6 out of 1193) require flex
to compile, I wouldn't put flex into the group of RPM's that are always
required to build a rpm...
Stefan van der Eijk
