<div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida
Grande,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">>Yes. Bison and flex are not required when building from a source <br clear="none"
/>>tarball,because the tarball includes the generated files. If you're <br clear="none" />>building from a git
checkout,however, then you need bison and flex. You <br clear="none" />>will get an error at make, and IIRC a
warningat ./configure<br /><br />Thanks for the quick reply. For curiosity reasons why the differentiation between tar
andgit.<br /><br />Regards<br /><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"><br /><br /><div style="font-family:
HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family:
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face="Arial"size="2"> On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 3:18 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>
wrote:<br/></font></div><div class="y_msg_container">On 01/28/2014 04:14 PM, salah jubeh wrote:<div
class="yqt1526475617"id="yqtfd54504"><br clear="none" />> Today, I have noticed that ./configure does not return an
errorwhen bison and flex are missing. Is this intended ?</div><br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />Yes. Bison and
flexare not required when building from a source <br clear="none" />tarball, because the tarball includes the generated
files.If you're <br clear="none" />building from a git checkout, however, then you need bison and flex. You <br
clear="none"/>will get an error at make, and IIRC a warning at ./configure.<br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />-
Heikki<divclass="yqt1526475617" id="yqtfd35346"><br clear="none" /></div><br /><br /></div></div></div></div></div>