Bug 221413

Summary:	sys-devel/gdb: probably needs flex build-time dependency
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers <toolchain>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	ingmar
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	221311

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-05-11 13:18:41 UTC

The configure of your package checks for flex, even though your package might not contain .l files that flex uses to generate parsers. Your ebuild does not list a dependency on flex as per http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/misc/dindex/sys-devel/flex .

Either disable the flex test during configure to avoid false positive, or add the dependency upon flex if it's needed by your package.

Thanks in advance,
Diego

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2008-06-21 06:33:12 UTC

you'll need something scalable to address this ... patching the flex test out of configure is not such a thing

flex isnt actually used during compile time as the lex files are not updated