{lang}[*] flex: Make Bison a build dependency #3656
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As discussed on the mailing list a couple of weeks ago,
Bison
is not really necessary for usingflex
and can thus be specified as a build dependency. This PR implements this change for flex 2.6.0, and also adds a checksum for the source tarball. If this change is considered OK, I can prepare corresponding PRs for older versions of flex available in the repo.Note: This change may potentially break packages that only (build-)depend on
flex
rather than depending on bothflex
andBison
. However, how many packages are affected is hard to predict.edit: ref to thread on ML: https://lists.ugent.be/wws/arc/easybuild/2016-08/msg00017.html