Re: About flex

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 12:30:37 +0900, Rui-Xiang Guo <rxg%lavabit.com@localhost> 
wrote:

> 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
> [...]

I feel that it's a document fault.
from commit log:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2005/07/16/0016.html

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