I had a similar problem. To fix it I downloaded (from metalab) a package called flex. Seems as though, lex is a part of the flex package.
Wes -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Viktor Rosenfeld Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 3:52 PM To: PAM,Thomas Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Still about fetchmail... "PAM,Thomas" wrote: > > Ok, but i'm a complete ignorant on the building process. I don't even know > what lex is !!! > could you give me more details about the need of lex or flex?? > thanks , > pamz! Sorry, I can't really help you there, since I don't have a lot experience in building my own packages. IIRC lex is a lexical analyser generater, which means that it takes some regexp's and rules from an input file and generates some C-Code to scan for those regexp's. Judging from the error message you posted on the net, I assume that fetchmail uses lex to generate (part of) the code that scans the .fetchmailrc file and encouters an error in its input file (rcfile_1.1), but I am just guessing here. The fetchmail FAQ isn't very detailed either, it just mentions to install flex instead of using lex. I'm sure, you can find flex on http://www.freshmeat.net/ and if installing doesn't help, you could check out the fetchmail-friends mailing list mentioned in the FAQ. MfG Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HertzSCHLAG: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/hs/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
