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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2013-09-29 12:44:25 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2013-09-29 12:44:25 +0200
commit2aa76ee14a1adecf2ff51ac45ed3df73055388e5 (patch)
treeb752fd2a3a2f742af23d01dcf230c1de53e751a3 /gnu/packages/flex.scm
parent9546640ecc17f7eec27ebd4016da6b006cf83eb0 (diff)
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gnu: flex: Use Bison 2.7 for tests.
* gnu/packages/bison.scm (bison): Move FLEX to 'inputs', and remove the hack that turned off its test suite. * gnu/packages/flex.scm (flex): Add 'bison-for-tests' in 'inputs', and use that to run the tests.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/packages/flex.scm')
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/flex.scm24
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/flex.scm b/gnu/packages/flex.scm
index beddb620a7..3dc7372acb 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/flex.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/flex.scm
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
#:use-module (gnu packages m4)
#:use-module (gnu packages bison)
#:use-module (gnu packages indent)
+ #:use-module (srfi srfi-1)
#:export (flex))
(define flex
@@ -41,9 +42,26 @@
(build-system gnu-build-system)
(arguments
'(#:patches (list (assoc-ref %build-inputs "patch/bison-tests"))))
- (inputs `(("patch/bison-tests" ,(search-patch "flex-bison-tests.patch"))
- ("bison" ,bison)
- ("indent" ,indent)))
+ (inputs
+ (let ((bison-for-tests
+ ;; Work around an incompatibility with Bison 3.0:
+ ;; <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2013-09/msg00014.html>.
+ (package (inherit bison)
+ (version "2.7.1")
+ (source (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/bison/bison-"
+ version ".tar.xz"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32
+ "1yx7isx67sdmyijvihgyra1f59fwdz7sqriginvavfj5yb5ss2dl"))))
+
+ ;; Unlike Bison 3.0, this version did not need Flex for its
+ ;; tests, so it allows us to break the cycle.
+ (inputs (alist-delete "flex" (package-inputs bison))))))
+ `(("patch/bison-tests" ,(search-patch "flex-bison-tests.patch"))
+ ("bison" ,bison-for-tests)
+ ("indent" ,indent))))
(propagated-inputs `(("m4" ,m4)))
(home-page "http://flex.sourceforge.net/")
(synopsis "A fast lexical analyser generator")