Re: RFC: build: be robust to missing flex

[Akim Demaille]

Le 27 mars 2012 à 15:59, Stefano Lattarini a écrit :

> On 03/27/2012 03:43 PM, Akim Demaille wrote:
>> 
>> Well, I would live happily with grep -E 'f?lex 2\.5\.35' actually,
>> I don't care much about older flexes.  Newer ones can be treated
>> when needed, and that's not in a foreseeable future.
>> 
>> WDYT?
>> 
> What about going for a proper feature check in true autotools style?
> I.e., try $LEX on an input that is known to work with modern flexes
> and to trip non-flex lexers.

Well, I am much more on the dark side now, I grew
tired of writing these tests :(  Anyway, the real
test is whether the package compiles.