2010/8/17 Phil Blundell <ph...@gnu.org>: > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 16:14 +0200, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: >> 2010/8/17 Phil Blundell <ph...@gnu.org>: >> > On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 16:26 -0500, Jason Kridner wrote: >> >> -DEPENDS = "virtual/libintl" >> >> +DEPENDS = "virtual/libintl virtual/flex" >> > >> > Does this actually work? I couldn't immediately spot any obvious >> > package which PROVIDES virtual/flex, and that sounds like a strange kind >> > of virtual to have since I don't think there are any alternative >> > implementations of flex. (But if bison actually depends on lex >> > generically, rather than flex specifically, it might make some sense to >> > introduce a virtual/lex and have flex PROVIDE it.) >> > >> >> is there another popular lexer apart from flex? >> And will bison build with it? > > Well, there's lex itself obviously. I'm not sure whether bison will > actually work with it, and I guess the majority of lex afficionados will > probably be using yacc rather than bison in any case, so it probably > isn't all that big a deal. But if bison does indeed support non-flex > implementations of lex then it would be nice to expose that in the > metadata. > > Guess other packages then also start to depend on a new-to-be-introduced virtual/lex As I think it is pretty pointless to have this, and as it requires some time to introduce it elsewhere (time that I do not have now), I added a dependency on flex-native and pushed that one
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