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List:       kde-buildsystem
Subject:    Re: Flex, Bison, and CMake compatibility
From:       Nicolas Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez () gmail ! com>
Date:       2011-08-14 3:47:40
Message-ID: j27ggt$k76$1 () dough ! gmane ! org
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Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 August 2011, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 12:23:52PM +0200, Patrick Spendrin wrote:
>> > Am 24.06.2011 22:10, schrieb Nicolas Alvarez:
>> > > I'm trying to change the kdelibs buildsystem to generate Flex and
>> > > Bison parsers at compile time, instead of keeping the generated
>> > > code in version control.
>> 
>> very good.
>> 
>> > This will simply not work:
>> > there are no flex versions newer than 2.5.4 for windows, newer
>> > versions can't be compiled anymore.
>> 
>> then fix it.
> 
> Yeah, that and a million other things that don't work on Windows because
> only Patrick and a few other brave (or foolish?) people care about
> making KDE stuff available on Windows while almost everybody else only
> cares for gcc and Linux.

If kconfig_compiler was broken everywhere other than Linux, would you fix it 
to make it work on Windows, or would you ship the generated .cpp files in 
git and tarballs and somehow make sure developers remember to update them 
when they touch the .kcfg?

-- 
Nicolas


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