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From Heikki Linnakangas
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In response to bison, flex and ./configure  (salah jubeh <s_jubeh@yahoo.com>)
Responses Re: bison, flex and ./configure  (salah jubeh <s_jubeh@yahoo.com>)
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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

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