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

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

The following reply was made to PR pkg/33028; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>
To: Lloyd Parkes <Lloyd.Parkes%ird.govt.nz@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost,
        pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/33028: cfengine2 on Solaris needs flex, not lex
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 20:05:01 -0800 (PST)

 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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