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Re: Running make for autoconf V2.13 with HP-UX 11.0
From: |
Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Re: Running make for autoconf V2.13 with HP-UX 11.0 |
Date: |
28 Feb 2001 11:02:51 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) |
Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> writes:
> On Feb 28, 2001, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > I've received tons of bug reports about failures during the build
> > phase of a2ps, people complaining of my requiring yacc, lex, msg*
> > etc. I did not require it, everything was shipped.
>
> IIRC, the problem is that automake 1.4's AM_PROG_LEX would bail out if
> it couldn't find flex or lex because of excess quoting I introduced
> :-(
>
> The CVS version correctly sets up LEX='missing lex', instead of
> failing.
Flex was not my only problem. It might have had other problem by
itself, but everything was affected!