Re: Octave 3.4.0 for Mac OS X

[John W. Eaton]

On  8-Apr-2011, Julien Salort wrote:

| Is flex needed at compile time or at runtime ?

It is needed to generate the C++ code for the lexer from the flex in
put file, lex.ll.

| Why does this problem araise only with the mercurial version ?

In the tarballs, we include the generated code, so unless you modify
lex.ll, you don't need to regenerate the lex.cc file.  But we choose
to not check in any generated files to the Mercurial archive, so you
have to have all the tools to build Octave when you build the
development sources from scratch.

jwe