On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 11:00:42PM +0200, Michael Felt wrote: > I have spent the last two days 'experimenting'. I am sort of stuck because > I cannot get flex to compile, and the tests seem to need that. Make > (version 3.0.17.*cd) is completing, but the make check fails and stops > almost immediately (just as the 3.0.0 version did). > > I am waiting for some suggestions from the flex ( > https://sourceforge.net/p/flex/bugs/157/) people, and/or instructions from > "bison" on how to run at least some of the tests without flex. > > Not sure if it will help, but I used the linuxfromscratch (7.4) instructions: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/stable/flex.html i.e. flex-2.5.37, with a sed to disable the flex tests which require bison.
Before bison-3.0 we (LFS) used to build flex much later and we had to patch it so that the tests would work with bison-2.6.1 and later 2.x releases. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce
