ah ok, all good.... yeah i had bison brewed already as it was required, and i have no issues with using the osx version of flex but probably not a bad idea, i just got a bit confused as i hadn't used it to build..
still thanks for pushing it to brew, i was just satisfied with building it myself but can't beat brew for deps On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 1:54 AM, Johannes Maibaum <jmaib...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Am 02.09.2016 um 15:34 schrieb Simon Wells <swel...@gmail.com>: >> >> Hey johannes, >> >> I am just in the process of brewing libngspice and noticed that flex >> was a requirement? should that not be an option as i don't seem to >> have needed it to build myself? >> >> Simon > > Hi Simon, > > actually I am not really sure a Homebrewed flex is needed for > successfully building libngspice. As with bison, flex comes with > OSX, but in an older version. The OSX version of bison (2.3, I > think) is too old for building ngspiceās HEAD, so I had that in my > formula already. My thinking went further that if a newer bison > is needed for a HEAD build, perhaps using a newer flex might be good > as well, as the two tools are often used together for lexing and > parsing. So I included flex as a dependency, too. > > I had some discussions with the Homebrew maintainers who did not > want me to add options for --enable-cider and -xspice, but to > hardcode them in. Their rationale seems to be that options should > only be there, when there are issues for some people. If you find > an issue with Homebrewed flex, they might let me add and option for > flex. > > Best, > Johannes _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp