Re: [Sheflug] Lex

[(Ted Harding) <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18-Sep-01 Will Newton 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).

and, when you install the flex binary (/usr/bin/flex), you should also
have installed /usr/bin/lex which is a wee scriptie containing

  #!/bin/sh
  exec /usr/bin/flex -l "$ [at] "

Ted.

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Date: 18-Sep-01                                       Time: 19:38:20
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