From: Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr>
Date: 2007-01-02T03:54:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Introducing Xaggly, a C-based XML Parser for Ruby

Tony Perrie wrote:
> I was trying to jigger this plugin to a gem, but it appears that mkmf
> doesn't detect the presence of Flex and Bison files automatically.  Is
> there a supported or standard for doing such a thing?

  From my own limited experience, it is better to ship both the flex and
bison sources files and the C files produced. My belief is that most of
the time, 'it will just work'. But I have limited experience with bison,
flex and cross-platform stuff (apart from the fact that everytime I had
a friend try one of my things on a different platform, I had to give him
the C files because flex wasn't understanding the same set of options...).

	Vince

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