Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Gatekeeper?

[Friedrich L. <fl...@fl...>]

Bruce Smith wrote:
>>>Another problem I found, pwlib requires a patch to a bison config file
>>>for it to compile (/usr/share/bison/yacc.c - outside of the build tree).
>>>
>>>How do we handle something like that?
>>
>>I would suggest adding bison to our build system.
>>Compile and install it in the "build" section and put the execution of the
>>script below 100.
> 
> 
> Do a "make install" in the build system, and install it in the LFS base?
> And don't copy anything to the DL CD?
> 
> One potential problem is we're currently running the latest _stable_
> version of bison, so I'd have to install the latest _beta_ release.
> 
> Are we brave enough to install a beta release of bison in the LFS,
> considering it is probably used to compile many of our packages?
> 
> It may be safer to create a build script to copy (or patch) the new
> /usr/share/bison/yacc.c file into our current release of bison.

How about creating a package for the stable bison, extracting the patch
from pwlib and letting the bison build script do the patching.

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MfG / Regards
Friedrich Lobenstock
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Friedrich Lobenstock                       Linux Services Lobenstock
URL: http://www.lsl.at/                         Email: fl...@fl...
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