GNU bug report logs - #52311
Flex and Bison are not built from source

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Hello Guix!

As stikonas (Andrius =C5=A0tikonas) rightfully pointed out on #guix, Flex a=
nd
Bison are currently not entirely built from source in Guix: their source
tarballs contain Flex- and/or Bison-generated files.

The problem and a solution are described here:

  https://gitlab.com/giomasce/nbs/

The =E2=80=9Clive-bootstrap=E2=80=9D project also implements a multi-stage =
bootstrap:

  https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/blob/master/sysa/heirloom-dev=
tools-070527/heirloom-devtools-070527.kaem
  https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/blob/master/sysa/flex-2.5.11/=
flex-2.5.11.sh
  https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/blob/master/sysa/flex-2.6.4/f=
lex-2.6.4.sh
  https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/tree/master/sysa/bison-3.4.1

Let=E2=80=99s follow their lead on the next core-updates cycle.

Thanks stikonas for the links!

Ludo=E2=80=99.