Re: About flex

[Rui-Xiang Guo <rxg%lavabit.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 10:16:08AM +0900, OBATA Akio wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 23:50:50 +0900, Rui-Xiang Guo <rxg%lavabit.com@localhost> 
> wrote:
> 
> >We have had the flex inside the tools, but even I use flex:pkgsrc in 
> >USE_TOOLS,
> >it still link to the system's flex(/usr/bin/flex) because the
> >TOOLS_PLATFORM.flex has been defined.
> 
> flex:pkgsrc does not mean using flex from pkgsrc, but just pkgsrc itself 
> using flex.
> The knob is _TOOLS_USE_PKGSRC.flex=yes, enabled if TOOLS_PLATFORM.flex is 
> empty.

Maybe I misunderstand. I see such description in the doc/pkgsrc.txt -
[...]
18.2. Tools needed by packages

In the following examples, the :pkgsrc means to use the pkgsrc version and not
the native version for a build dependency. And the :run means that it is used
[...]

-rxg