[oe] [PATCH] bison: add flex dependency

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/8/17 Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org>:
> On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 16:26 -0500, Jason Kridner wrote:
>> -DEPENDS = "virtual/libintl"
>> +DEPENDS = "virtual/libintl virtual/flex"
>
> Does this actually work?  I couldn't immediately spot any obvious
> package which PROVIDES virtual/flex, and that sounds like a strange kind
> of virtual to have since I don't think there are any alternative
> implementations of flex.  (But if bison actually depends on lex
> generically, rather than flex specifically, it might make some sense to
> introduce a virtual/lex and have flex PROVIDE it.)
>

is there another popular lexer apart from flex?
And will bison build with it?
We build flex-native anyway, so suggest doing the depends as I suggested.

Frans