Re: Symlinks to generic names

[Ludovic Courtès]

John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:

> Some software (rightly or wrongly) tries to build with "lex" and "yacc" .  
> Guix does not provide these.
> Instead we have "flex" and "bison".  Most operating systems have symbolic 
> links lex -> flex and yacc -> bison.
> Shouldn't we provide these too?

We had a similar discussion for ‘cc’ vs. ‘gcc’, but in practice ‘cc’ has
been rare enough that it’s not worth bothering.

I believe Autoconf-based packages do not have any problems with ‘flex’
and ‘bison’.  What package was it?  How hard is it to work around?

Thanks,
Ludo’.