Re: pkg/33028: cfengine2 on Solaris needs flex, not lex

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Lloyd Parkes wrote:

> >  Maybe use instead:
> >  USE_TOOLS+=          flex
> 
> That seems to work fine.
> 
> I'm normally a bit wary of forcing the use of a particular implementation of a
> utility (who needs so sit and watch software build when the OS tools work
> fine?),

I know what you mean. At least on NetBSD, the flex and lex are identical 
and in the base install, so USE_TOOLS+=flex won't install anything extra.

Also using USE_TOOLS instead of BUILD_DEPENDS helps by using the 
OS-provided tools.

> but as far as I know, there are only two implementations of lex, and
> only one of them works for cfengine2.



 Jeremy C. Reed

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