Solaris 8 lex vs flex

[Shawn Ferry]

It appears that lex cannot parse the current cflex.l

The work around is simple, I installed flex.

Solaris 8
Cfengine 2.0.7p3
lex: Software Generation Utilities (SGU) Solaris-ELF (4.0)
flex version 2.5.4


While trying to compile, I get the following error.

/bin/bash ../ylwrap `test -f 'cflex.l' || echo './'`cflex.l lex.yy.c 
cflex.c -- lex
got /data/cfengine-2\.0\.7p3/src/
"/data/cfengine-2.0.7p3/src/cflex.l":line 489: Error: Too many states
606/1000 nodes(%e), 8896/9000 positions(%p), 801/800 (%n), 136945 
transitions,
206/10000 packed char classes(%k),  11512/16000 packed transitions(%a), 
 0/30000 output slots(%o)
make[1]: *** [cflex.c] Error 1


Further testing reveals:

lex ./cflex.l
"./cflex.l":line 489: Error: Too many states
606/1000 nodes(%e), 8896/9000 positions(%p), 801/800 (%n), 136945 
transitions,
206/10000 packed char classes(%k),  11512/16000 packed transitions(%a), 
 0/30000 output slots(%o)


flex ./cflex.l
(No Errors)