On 01/22/2013 11:21 AM, johannes.bie...@hzg.de wrote: > Finally I solved the problem: > > I had flex 2.5.37 installed locally (I have no admin rights) > but the command 'lex' was still linked to the old flex 2.5.31 version. > > So I was using way too old versions of flex and bison and there is > no bug in automake. > Thanks for confirming; I'm thus closing this report.
> Although it would be helpful if configure would check the bison > and flex version and give a warning for too old versions. > Possibly yes, but since using bison or flex versions as old as yours were in the testsuite is something very uncommon, I wouldn't worry too deeply about it. Maybe I can give a shot at making those tests more portable to older versions if the issue comes up again in the future, but I wouldn't worry about it now. > Thanks for the help, > Johannes > Thanks for the report an the patience. Best regards, Stefano
