[syslog-ng] Should configure error out if lex/flex is missing?

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 10:49 -0400, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
> After successfully running ./configure for syslog-ng 3.2beta1, the
> build immediately failed because I didn't have flex installed.  I see
> that configure is already calling AM_PROG_LEX...so maybe this is just
> the expected behavior?  After installing flex the build completed
> successfully.

you shouldn't need flex if you try to compile syslog-ng from a tarball
and you didn't modify cfg-lex.l

does it still need it? maybe the timestamps are bogus in the tarball.

so, no it shouldn't error out, but at the same time it shouldn't call
flex/bison at all.

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Bazsi