On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Daniel Dickman <[email protected]> wrote: > The lex Makefile says: > "To bootstrap lex, cp initscan.c to scan.c and run make."
I think the correct diff is to delete that comment in the Makefile. To bootstrap lex, install a snapshot! initscan.c should be kept around only to minimize diffs from the flex distribution. (initscan.c exists for installing flex on systems that don't already have flex installed, or maybe to bootstrap to new flex features if flex's own lexer starts using them quickly. The latter is the only reason to use it on OpenBSD.) Philip Guenther
