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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
3 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
4 %general-entities;
5]>
6<sect1 id="ch-tools-flex" xreflabel="Flex" role="wrap">
7<title>Flex-&flex-version;</title>
8<?dbhtml filename="flex.html"?>
9
10<indexterm zone="ch-tools-flex">
11<primary sortas="a-Flex">Flex</primary>
12<secondary>tools</secondary></indexterm>
13
14<sect2 role="package"><title/>
15<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../chapter06/flex.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/para[1])"/>
16
17<segmentedlist>
18<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
19<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
20<seglistitem><seg>0.6 SBU</seg><seg>10.6 MB</seg></seglistitem>
21</segmentedlist>
22
23<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../chapter06/flex.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/segmentedlist[2])"/>
24
25</sect2>
26
27<sect2 role="installation">
28<title>Installation of Flex</title>
29
30<para>Flex contains several known bugs. These can be fixed with the
31following patch:</para>
32
33<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../flex-&flex-version;-debian_fixes-2.patch</userinput></screen>
34
35<para>The GNU autotools will detect that the Flex source code has been
36modified by the previous patch and tries to update the manual page
37accordingly. This does not work on many systems, and the default page is
38fine, so make sure it does not get regenerated:</para>
39
40<screen><userinput>touch doc/flex.1</userinput></screen>
41
42<para>Now prepare Flex for compilation:</para>
43
44<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools</userinput></screen>
45
46<para>Compile the package:</para>
47
48<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
49
50<para>To test the results, issue:
51<userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
52
53<para>Install the package:</para>
54
55<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
56
57</sect2>
58
59<sect2 role="content"><title/>
60<para>The details on this package are found in <xref linkend="contents-flex"/>.</para>
61</sect2>
62
63</sect1>
64
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