Re: [PATCH] Documentation/Changes & hunting

[Keith Owens]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2001 21:00:25 -0500 (EST), 
Rob Cermak <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Included some info on things needed to compile 2.4.2-ac16.   Feel free to
>further edit and comment.  Patched against -ac16.   [linux = ac16; my
>edited version is ac14].
>+o  flex                   2.5.4                   # flex --version
>+o  bison                  1.28                    # bison --version
>+o  db                     3.1.17 (1)              # strings /lib/libdb.so | grep Sleep | grep DB
>+o  yacc                   (2)

No.  Building the kernel must not rely on userspace tools like yacc and
lex and certainly not on db.  The fact that aic7xxx requires these
tools is a problem for aic7xxx, not for the entire kernel.  We are
working on fixing aic7xxx to build without the user space tools.