Milter-greylist

--- In milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com, Martin Paul <martin@p...>
wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 02:35:59PM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> > 
> > Here is our beta7 of milter-greylist 2.0
> > http://ftp.espci.fr/pub/milter-greylist/milter-greylist-2.0b7.tgz
> 
> Would it make sense to include conf_yacc.c, conf_lex.c, dump_yacc.c,
> and dump_lex.c in the milter-greylist distribution ? They don't 
> need to be generated every time on the system where it is compiled,
> and you could remove the dependency on flex/yacc/bison from the
> README.

I haven't checked for sure, but usually flex and lex like to link
against libfl.a or libl.a. So you'd need the *fitting* version of that
anyway.

Shipping files *might* work for bison though.

> At least under Solaris 9 flex is not included in the core operating
> system. While Hans Mayer might say that is included on the companion
> CD - the packages there are *optional*, and not installed on all
> Solaris machines.

Well, if you build stuff from sources, you should really be prepared
to install some prerequisits. And the prereqs of milter-greylist are
really harmless!


    Elrond