>Yes. Bison and flex are not required when building from a source
>tarball, because the tarball includes the generated files. If you're
>building from a git checkout, however, then you need bison and flex. You
>will get an error at make, and IIRC a warning at ./configure
Thanks for the quick reply. For curiosity reasons why the differentiation between tar and git.
Regards
On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 3:18 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com> wrote:
On 01/28/2014 04:14 PM, salah jubeh wrote:
> Today, I have noticed that ./configure does not return an error when bison and flex are missing. Is this intended ?
Yes. Bison and flex are not required when building from a source
tarball, because the tarball includes the generated files. If you're
building from a git checkout, however, then you need bison and flex. You
will get an error at make, and IIRC a warning at ./configure.
- Heikki
