Bug#1042124: Flex help needed for eegdev (Was: Re: eegdev: FTBFS: ../../lib/stdio.h:64:3: error: #error "Please include config.h first.")

On 2023-08-25, at 18:29:34 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Nilesh Patra:
> > On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 05:17:47PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
> > > [...]
> > 
> > I had figured out this already, but conffile.lex.c does not exist in the
> > project, it is generated as a part of the lexer output. In particular:
> > 
> 
> Ok, apologies it was not clear to me from your opening email, where you were
> stuck. I incorrectly assumed it was an an earlier stage than you are, so my
> input was not useful to you.
> 
> I checked the source of `conffile.l` and it need already has to runes to
> include config.h where I would have assumed you needed to (https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/eegdev/-/blob/master/src/core/conffile.l#L24).
> 
> A bit of searching found the following flex upstream bug:
> 
>   * https://github.com/westes/flex/issues/564
> 
> Which seems related. Hopefully, it can help you.

Another possibility would be just not to use gnulib.  Debian is a GNU
system, so it shouldn't be needed.  If one removes the dh_autoreconf
override and just lets dh_autoreconf do its thing, the package builds
successfully.

J.

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