[mapserver-dev] removing default flex/bison rules

[Daniel Morissette]

+1, and I'd suggest that you also add a very visible comment at the top 
of maplexer.l reminding developers that they need to run 'make lexer' 
after modifying this file for their changes to take effect.

Daniel


Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> How would people feel about removing the default rules for running
> flex and bison as described in:
> 
>   http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2310
> 
> My objective is to avoid the fairly frequent problem that stuff comes out
> of svn or a source tarball with the wrong timestamps on files, thus forcing
> regeneration of the lexer and parser.  The problem is that often folks
> building don't have the right version of these tools and stuff goes sort of
> haywire.
> 
> Best regards,


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