Re: [Sheflug] Lex

[Will Newton <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 18 Sep 2001 4:38 pm, you wrote:

> I'm trying to install PHP4.0.6 and am getting an error while running
> ./configure which is complaining about not being able to find lex.
> I've checked and don't have it on my system, nor is it on my SuSE7.0 disks.
> I've had a look around the web and can find plenty of documents about lex
> but have so far been spectacularly unsuccessful in finding a download
> source for the program itself.

Lex is the original UNIX lexer generator for creating parsers. The GNU 
version of lex is called "flex". That should be available for all distros. 
You may also need "bison" (a replacement for yacc, a complementary tool).

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