[Buildroot] [PATCH 4/8] flex: add flex-host package (required by webkit)

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Sun Nov 15 16:18:00 UTC 2009


>>>>> "Lionel" == Lionel Landwerlin <llandwerlin at gmail.com> writes:

Hi,

 >> BTW, why do we need to build flex for the host ? flex is part of the
 >> few tools that we consider to be a dependency of Buildroot.

 Lionel> It's required to build webkit. I didn't notice the problem until I built
 Lionel> it on a host system where it wasn't installed.

Didn't the dependencies.sh check error out?

sudo mv /usr/bin/flex{,-backup}
make

flex installed:             FALSE


You must install 'flex' on your build machine

make: *** [dependencies] Error 1

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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