Re: [Fwd: Re: Thread Safe Lexer]

[Sam Roberts <vieuxtech () gmail com>]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Eloy Paris<peloy () chapus net> wrote:
> Do we use Flex and Bison on all supported platforms, or we have things
> setup so we use the original Lex and Yacc on some platforms to have
> backward source code compatibility?

Sorry if this is noise (it's been a while since I've used flex/bison),
but don't they generate portable C code, and isn't it that code that
is in the released source tarballs?

Actually building tcpdump should not require flex or bison, only
hacking on it from an svn checkout should require that, and if the
flex/bison output was checked in, even that should be only when
modifying the parser.

Anybody hacking on the source should be OK with installing/updating
the tools they need.

Cheers,
Sam
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