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Re: flex snapshot/beta
From: |
Bruce Lilly |
Subject: |
Re: flex snapshot/beta |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Mar 2002 10:30:24 -0500 |
"W. L. Estes" wrote:
>
> > I hope the build process will be simplified. Vern's flex could
> > be built by running configure and make, without the need for
> > specific versions of half a dozen obscure programs to do so.
>
> Such are the hazards of cvs snapshots. Yes, when flex is released, all
> the autoconf/automake work will be included so that users don't have
> the problems you mention.
>
[...]
> The GNU autoconf manual is quite explicit on autoconf's dependency on
> GNU m4. They've got a section in the manual on why they need it. (I
> can't evaluate their claims because I don't know enough about the
> source code.)
That may be so, but until the package is downloaded, one doesn't
know about the dependencies.
> > that it couldn't find perl! Perl?! I've never required perl
> > to build flex before. So I installed perl version 5.00502,
> > which is apparently still not to autoconf's liking. Total
> > of six packages downloaded to attempt to build one, and at
> > this point I've given up.
[...]
> Also, some optional utilities that come with Autoconf use Perl, TCL,
> and the TCL packages Expect and DejaGNU. However, none of those
> are required in order to use the main Autoconf program. If they are
> not present, the affected Autoconf utilities will not be installed.
>
> So, you shouldn't need perl.
Autoconf (2.53) says:
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
Perl 5.00503 required--this is only version 5.00502, stopped at -e line 1.
configure: error: Perl 5.005_03 or better is required
"-e"?! looks like yet another autoconf bug...
> What platform are you working on?
UWIN. (see http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/)
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Re: flex snapshot/beta,
Bruce Lilly <=
Re: flex snapshot/beta, W. L. Estes, 2002/03/11
Re: flex snapshot/beta, Bruce Lilly, 2002/03/11
Re: flex snapshot/beta, W. L. Estes, 2002/03/11
Re: flex snapshot/beta, Akim Demaille, 2002/03/18
Re: flex snapshot/beta, Akim Demaille, 2002/03/18