Guy, > I modified the relevant Makefile.am files so that the resulting > Makefiles will, in the rules that use Lex/Flex, first check to make sure > $(LEX) is set to a string that refers to the pathname of an executable > file and, if it doesn't, they will print an error message and exit with > an error.
Thanks! The new fatal error I think will be very helpful. On 10/19/06, Guy Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guy Harris wrote: > > Aamer Akhter wrote: > >> Looks like the problem was that flex was not installed on the system. > >> Apparently configure did not catch this. > > > > Could you try either hiding or un-installing flex, doing "make > > distclean" and running the configure script, and making available the > > output of the configure script and the config.log file, so we can try to > > figure out why the configure script didn't catch that and fix it if > > possible? > > Don't bother - I found it. > > The configure script isn't supposed to catch that, or, rather, it did > catch that and did what's appropriate. > > We don't want to prevent somebody who doesn't have Lex or Flex installed > from compiling a release tarball; the release tarballs include the > result of running Lex/Flex on the ".l" files in the source tree (and of > running Yacc/BYacc/Bison on the ".y" files), so you don't have to have > those installed. > > However, if you're building from SVN (or if you've modified one of the > .l or .y files), that won't work if you don't have Lex or Flex. > > I modified the relevant Makefile.am files so that the resulting > Makefiles will, in the rules that use Lex/Flex, first check to make sure > $(LEX) is set to a string that refers to the pathname of an executable > file and, if it doesn't, they will print an error message and exit with > an error. > > (.y might be trickier, as I think we're using implicit rules for that.) > _______________________________________________ > Wireshark-dev mailing list > Wireshark-dev@wireshark.org > http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev > -- Aamer Akhter / [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list Wireshark-dev@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
