Re: [PATCH] configure: check for bison, flex before dtc submodule build

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 at 12:16, Claudio Fontana <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> if fdt is required, and the system DTC (libfdt) is not usable,
> check for the dtc submodule requirements before trying to build it,
> and error out with a helpful message in case the dependencies are not met.
>
> Signed-off-by: Claudio Fontana <address@hidden>

Does the dtc module actually need bison/flex, or does it just
print an ugly warning about it? We only want the 'libfdt' part
of dtc, which doesn't need the parser, we don't need to build
the actual dtc compiler.

thanks
-- PMM