Reentrant flex

Linus Walleij triad at df.lth.se
Mon Nov 21 19:43:45 UTC 2005


On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Bojan Smojver wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 08:25 +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
>
>> Is it impossible to have the reentrant flex only exist in your own build
>> tree? So that it will get built and used for this task only then disappear
>> when the source tree is removed. Shouldn't be that hard...
>
> Sure (that's basically how my notebook is set up right now). But keep in
> mind that I don't have build tree in Fedora Extras. So, it'll have to be
> someone else's build tree. Also, if someone grabs the source RPM and
> wants to rebuild, they will be up against the wall. I don't think this
> is how open source is supposed to work...

Nah no, I didn't mean like that. I meant you include the patched flex, in 
source form, in the packaged source tree of the other program.

Linus




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