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Flex and Bison are not built from source

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Flex and Bison are not built from source
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2021 16:29:58 +0100

Hello Guix!

As stikonas (Andrius Štikonas) rightfully pointed out on #guix, Flex and
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 “live-bootstrap” project also implements a multi-stage bootstrap:

  https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/blob/master/sysa/heirloom-devtools-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/flex-2.6.4.sh
  https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/tree/master/sysa/bison-3.4.1

Let’s follow their lead on the next core-updates cycle.

Thanks stikonas for the links!

Ludo’.

Message #12 received at 52311-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>
To: 52311-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Close
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2025 18:52:00 +0200

This is now
   https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/issues/1610

Andreas

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