Rainer Hurling

Hi Evan, Thanks for these changes! Do we even need dependencies like lexer, yacc and bison anymore, are they still useful? I am asking as the maintainer of the FreeBSD...

@evanmiller OK, so it is enough to have them installed on the developer box (is mostly the case there), the end user will do without. Thanks for the explanation :)

> @rhurlin I'm not sure about BSD, but Debian forbid the use of generated files. I would definitely discard these files if I were you, and generate them from source....

@evanmiller @nirgal I am beginning to understand how the "mechanics" of `lex` and `yacc` work via `automake`. Thanks for the explanations and critical advice. On FreeBSD, the port so far...

@evanmiller I already hoped so :) If this is true, there should be no difference in the interpretation of SQL code between MDB Tools with and without C files included....

By "distributed tar balls" do you mean the four files listed under Assets on Github? I have no experience with them, as FreeBSD basically downloads the sources and compiles with...

@evanmiller Ah! Now I think I understand the meaning of the assets (tar balls) better. Thanks for the explanation. Unfortunately I have little experience with automake and writing configure scripts,...

Hi @17621706783 , Could you give a reproducible example?

I manually applied the patches from your pull request and tried them with MDBtools v1.0.0-1 (#bcad261) on FreeBSD. Also, I had to modify the example with the call to the...

Sorry for my previous mail, in which I had not fully considered the state of discussion (it was already a long working day). I would be interested to know if...