Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Gatekeeper?

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> >>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.

We could, but I don't see what that gains us.  The file that needs to be
patched is a text file (not a binary), so a re-compile is not necessary.

 - BS