[Clfs-dev] Latest git build Pure 64 systemd bison and flex

[William Harrington]

On Apr 3, 2014, at 5:30 PM, Martin Ward wrote:

> I couldn't find a way of letting binutils build without finding flex  
> and bison other than renaming the binaries. I've just finished the  
> cross compile stage  with flex and bison removed from the cross  
> compile stage, so far so good.
>
> Obviously they should remain in the final stage but it seems better  
> to build flex before bison as this removes the need to pass

Chris and I are looking into this. Here are my findings:

The host does not need bison or flex (Bison host system requirement at  
the moment)

Temp system does not need bison or flex.

Keeping flex and bison before binutils in final-system is fine.

Another issue we have is that bison and flex are hardcoding m4 binary  
to /tools/bin/m4.  We may have discussed this last year, M4=m4 during  
configure of bison and flex will fix that problem.

strings /usr/bin/flex /usr/bin/flex++ /usr/bin/bison  | grep tools\/bin
/tools/bin/m4
/tools/bin/m4
/tools/bin/m4

Sincerely,

William Harrington