Re: Solaris 8 lex vs flex

[Shawn Ferry]

On Monday, Jun 2, 2003, at 14:23 US/Eastern, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:

> > flex version 2.5.4
>
> Use gnu flex.

To clarify slightly, configure currently accepts lex as a valid parser.
The following patch causes configure to exit if it does not find flex.



*** configure.ac   Tue Jun  3 10:12:42 2003
--- configure.ac        Tue Jun  3 10:49:51 2003
***************
*** 57,62 ****
--- 57,65 ----

  AC_PROG_CC
  AM_PROG_LEX
+ if test "$LEX" != flex; then
+       AC_MSG_ERROR(this release of cfengine requires GNU Flex)
+ fi
  AC_PROG_YACC
  AC_PROG_RANLIB
  AC_PROG_INSTALL

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