Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:24144 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 46960 invoked by uid 1010); 16 Jun 2006 06:08:12 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 46945 invoked from network); 16 Jun 2006 06:08:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Jun 2006 06:08:12 -0000 X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: shiznatz@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 66.249.92.169 ug-out-1314.google.com Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([66.249.92.169:52021] helo=ug-out-1314.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id AF/59-00253-BCA42944 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 02:08:11 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so1473493ugc for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:08:09 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=ZzJzM75PGVXtxeIgzRC6Arw/CIUQlZqTEqqonVrSlOFwbfg7yDoFiC9nxW0F1KMCn17l23XFSELPFpFy4W5IoZfFcOTSNPhrsyqepbVci1mueGERsmQfQ2NHcjJ4caSeQQ4uAzraW/Hib9wP7l67n3g6Oi2ixkZxsgUu2BYIXFA= Received: by 10.67.15.3 with SMTP id s3mr2405383ugi; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:08:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.91.14 with HTTP; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:08:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1944df00606152308m70326f51ped2f93f7c96eb7a6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:08:09 +1000 To: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_24379_4616905.1150438089626" References: <44904F25.9090505@php.net> <00c401c68fde$6fe66680$0100a8c0@pc07653> <44905391.8090709@php.net> <44905A52.6050303@php.net> <44905AD2.7080806@php.net> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.2 - No easy installation for users anymore? From: shiznatz@gmail.com ("Robert Amos") ------=_Part_24379_4616905.1150438089626 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I agree with Sebastian and Stefan. If its not "necessary" in order to compile/use PHP for everyday users then it should throw a Warning and keep on going. Joe Average might not know that flex, re2c or bison was installed a dependancy for another service, etc. -bok On 6/16/06, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > > Michael Gall wrote: > > There is a debian package flex-old that supports the old functionality. > > Just install that first. > > That is besides Stefan's point. The snapshot and release tarballs come > with pre-generated scanners and parsers. Neither flex, nor re2c, nor > bison should be needed. Yet the configure script bails out if it finds > an incompatible version of one of these tools although the tool will not > be used during the "make". > > -- > Sebastian Bergmann http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/ > GnuPG Key: 0xB85B5D69 / 27A7 2B14 09E4 98CD 6277 0E5B 6867 C514 B85B 5D69 > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Xnyo - http://xnyo.odynia.org/ ------=_Part_24379_4616905.1150438089626--