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1<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
2
3<sect2>
4<title>Installation of Flex</title>
5
6<para>Prepare Flex to be compiled:</para>
7
8<para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen></para>
9
10<para>Continue with compiling the package:</para>
11
12<para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>
13
14<para>Install the package:</para>
15
16<para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
17
18<para>There are which packages expect to find the flex library
19in the <filename>/usr/lib</filename> directory. Create a symlink
20to account for this:</para>
21
22<para><screen><userinput>ln -s libfl.a /usr/lib/libl.a</userinput></screen></para>
23
24<para>Some programs don't know about flex and try to find the lex
25program (flex is a (better) alternative for lex). To please those
26programs, create a shell script named lex which calls flex in
27emulation mode:</para>
28
29<para><screen><userinput>cat &gt; /usr/bin/lex &lt;&lt; "EOF"</userinput>
30#!/bin/sh
31# Begin /usr/bin/lex
32
33exec /usr/bin/flex -l "$@"
34
35# End /usr/bin/lex
36<userinput>EOF
37chmod 755 /usr/bin/lex</userinput></screen></para>
38
39</sect2>
40
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