Re: Can't install octave-forge packages in a 32-bit OS X build, but can in a 64-bit one

[Alexander Hansen]

On 11/5/11 3:55 PM, c. wrote:
> 
> On 5 Nov 2011, at 17:09, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> 
>> See the above.  That doesn't involve an octave-forge package at all,
>> but just assigning an entry to a structure--inspired by dir.m, but
>> still just a structure.
> 
> I recall having the same problem a long time ago and, 
> if memory doesn't fail me (which is not a rare occurrence lately),  
> it was due to using a wrong version of flex and using "/sw/lib/flex/bin/flex"
> provided by the package:
> 
> flex-devel       2.5.35-2     Fast lexical analyser generator
> 
> solved the problem.
> 
> I'm not sure this is useful information I'm not even sure you need flex at 
> all 
> when building from a release and not from development sources.
> 
> HTH anyway,
> c.
> 
> 

That might be worth a shot, though on 10.6 fink's flex-devel and the
system's /usr/bin/flex are at the same version, so that leaves the
ancient 2.5.4a from our "flex" package.