Re: Symlinks to generic names

[John Darrington]

On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 08:34:23AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
     John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:
     
     > Some software (rightly or wrongly) tries to build with "lex" and "yacc" 
.  Guix does not provide these.
     > Instead we have "flex" and "bison".  Most operating systems have 
symbolic links lex -> flex and yacc -> bison.
     > Shouldn't we provide these too?
     
     We had a similar discussion for ‘cc’ vs. ‘gcc’, but in practice ‘cc’ has
     been rare enough that it’s not worth bothering.

     I believe Autoconf-based packages do not have any problems with ‘flex’
     and ‘bison’.  What package was it?  How hard is it to work around?
     
It's probably not too hard.  It just seems to me, that it makes more sense to 
do the 
workaround in 1 package, than in N.

J'

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