On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 01:53:05PM +0100, Simon Waters wrote: > Couldn't figure out why automake was including the ".c" file for the lex > code when doing "make dist". > > Eventually read the manual ;-) Which said this is what it is suppose to do. > > Since the generated C code isn't portable it breaks the normal > "./configure; make" build procedure on one of the target platforms. > > Evil hacks are easy to avoid this, but why does it do this, and is there > a "right way" of stopping it, or should I do something clever to make > the generated C portable?
Recent versions of flex are a dead loss; I'd stick with 2.5.4 until the flex maintainers start responding to mail, or at least fixing bugs. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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