Re: automake and (f)lex

[Andrew Suffield <asuffield at debian dot org>]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 01:53:05PM +0100, Simon Waters wrote:
> Couldn't figure out why automake was including the ".c" file for the lex
> code when doing "make dist".
> 
> Eventually read the manual ;-) Which said this is what it is suppose to do.
> 
> Since the generated C code isn't portable it breaks the normal
> "./configure; make" build procedure on one of the target platforms.
> 
> Evil hacks are easy to avoid this, but why does it do this, and is there
> a "right way" of stopping it, or should I do something clever to make
> the generated C portable?

Recent versions of flex are a dead loss; I'd stick with 2.5.4 until
the flex maintainers start responding to mail, or at least fixing
bugs.

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