generated spotlight files (via bison/flex) from waf rather than use snapshots of previous generated files

[Ralph Böhme]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 01:08:28PM +0100, Stefan Metzmacher wrote:
> Hi Noel,
> 
> to my knowledge it used to be very tricky to get a felx/bison combination
> that works together and is available on all systems we want to support.

gna. :/ That's a valid concern, but is this really true if we stick to flex and
bison? I've been using them a lot in varios combinations and I was always able
to bend them to my will.

Cheerio!
-slow