Jamil Egdemir <uncleja...@gmail.com> skribis: > I was using the flex that came with OpenBSD 5.6 which was 2.5.4 so I > pulled down and installed flex-2.5.39. This got me past these errors > though I'm not sure if this is associated with differences between the > OpenBSD brand of flex or just a versioning issue. If it's a versioning > issue then it probably make sense to put something in configure.ac like > AC_PROG_LEX to make sure we have a flex that's a bit more recent than > 2.5.4 as suggested here:
We cannot use AC_PROG_LEX because Flex is not a dependency when building from a tarball. AC_PROG_LEX would look for flex/lex when running ‘configure’, even though it’s not actually needed. Maybe we could specify a minimum version number in ‘HACKING’ though? I’m not sure which one. Thanks, Ludo’.
