| 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546474849505152535455565758596061 | <sect1 id="ch-system-flex" xreflabel="Flex"><title>Installing Flex-&flex-version;</title><?dbhtml filename="flex.html" dir="chapter06"?><para>The Flex package contains a utility for generating programs thatrecognize patterns in text.</para><screen>&buildtime; &flex-time;&diskspace; &flex-compsize;</screen>&aa-flex-down;&aa-flex-dep;<sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2><sect2><title>Installation of Flex</title><para>Prepare Flex for compilation:</para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen><para>Compile the package:</para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen><para>To have the results tested, issue:<userinput>make bigcheck</userinput>.</para><para>And install the package:</para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen><para>There are some packages that expect to find the <emphasis>lex</emphasis>library in <filename>/usr/lib</filename>. Create a symlink to account forthis:</para><screen><userinput>ln -s libfl.a /usr/lib/libl.a</userinput></screen><para>A few programs don't know about <command>flex</command> yet and tryto run its predecessor <command>lex</command>. To support those programs,create a wrapper script named <filename>lex</filename> that calls<command>flex</command> in <emphasis>lex</emphasis> emulation mode:</para><screen><userinput>cat > /usr/bin/lex << "EOF"</userinput>#!/bin/sh# Begin /usr/bin/lexexec /usr/bin/flex -l "$@"# End /usr/bin/lex<userinput>EOFchmod 755 /usr/bin/lex</userinput></screen></sect2>&aa-flex-shortdesc;&aa-flex-desc;</sect1>
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