Configure does check for flex and bison, but doesn't fail if they're not found. This is deliberate, as anyone building from a released source (as opposed to git) will not need flex or bison.
That said, the error message during the make step should not be about failing to find tikzparser.h, but instead about flex or bison not being found.
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Ah, that makes sense. Didn't think about source distro. The error at point of failure is about not finding the header, but if you scroll up, easy to see that flex/bison missing.
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So if I uninstall flex and bison and build from scratch, I get the warning
configure: WARNING: flex not found; this may cause problems for developers
during configure (and another for bison), and running make gives me
Making all in src
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/alex/src/tikzit/tikzit/src'
GEN common/tikzlexer.m
/home/alex/src/tikzit/tikzit/missing: line 81: flex: command not found
WARNING: 'flex' is missing on your system.
You should only need it if you modified a '.l' file.
You may want to install the Fast Lexical Analyzer package:
<http://flex.sourceforge.net/>
make[1]: *** [common/tikzlexer.m] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/alex/src/tikzit/tikzit/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
Even when running "make -j3", for example, Make is clever enough not to try compiling anything until it has run flex and bison, unless those files already exist.
Have you tried doing
git clean -xfd
to get a fresh checkout? It could simply be that you have tikzlexer.m but not tikzlexer.h, and so it is not even trying to generate the files.
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Hmm, funny we get different errors. It was on a clean checkout. I'd send you exactly what I got, but silly console doesn't have enough scrollback.
Probably got the same thing from configure, but I never read. For example: didn't notice poppler was missing until I hit CTRL+L in tikzit and nothing happened. :-P
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I've pushed a commit that fixes Make's confusion when common/tikzparser.m exists but common/tikzparser.h does not.
Also, when you say "clean checkout", do you mean a completely fresh clone? "make clean" does not give you a clean checkout, and neither does running either "git checkout -f" or "git clean -f" (without the -x option).
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Configure does check for flex and bison, but doesn't fail if they're not found. This is deliberate, as anyone building from a released source (as opposed to git) will not need flex or bison.
That said, the error message during the make step should not be about failing to find tikzparser.h, but instead about flex or bison not being found.
Ah, that makes sense. Didn't think about source distro. The error at point of failure is about not finding the header, but if you scroll up, easy to see that flex/bison missing.
So if I uninstall flex and bison and build from scratch, I get the warning
during configure (and another for bison), and running make gives me
Making all in src make[1]: Entering directory `/home/alex/src/tikzit/tikzit/src' GEN common/tikzlexer.m /home/alex/src/tikzit/tikzit/missing: line 81: flex: command not found WARNING: 'flex' is missing on your system. You should only need it if you modified a '.l' file. You may want to install the Fast Lexical Analyzer package: <http://flex.sourceforge.net/> make[1]: *** [common/tikzlexer.m] Error 127 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/alex/src/tikzit/tikzit/src' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1Even when running "make -j3", for example, Make is clever enough not to try compiling anything until it has run flex and bison, unless those files already exist.
Have you tried doing
to get a fresh checkout? It could simply be that you have tikzlexer.m but not tikzlexer.h, and so it is not even trying to generate the files.
Hmm, funny we get different errors. It was on a clean checkout. I'd send you exactly what I got, but silly console doesn't have enough scrollback.
Probably got the same thing from configure, but I never read. For example: didn't notice poppler was missing until I hit CTRL+L in tikzit and nothing happened. :-P
I've pushed a commit that fixes Make's confusion when common/tikzparser.m exists but common/tikzparser.h does not.
Also, when you say "clean checkout", do you mean a completely fresh clone? "make clean" does not give you a clean checkout, and neither does running either "git checkout -f" or "git clean -f" (without the -x option).
fresh clone. Been setting up everything off a clean install of OS. '-x' is useful, I'll keep that in mind.