source: chapter05/flex.xml@ a0a2d970

Last change on this file since a0a2d970 was a8f36125, checked in by Matthew Burgess <matthew@…>, 20 years ago
  • (all) Removed all references to the DocBook DTD
  • (docbook.rng) Added the DocBook "Gin" schema
  • (Makefile) Updated with new validation command
  • (prologue/*) Validation fixes

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 [
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. Fix these with the following patch:</para>
31
32<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../flex-&flex-version;-debian_fixes-2.patch</userinput></screen>
33
34<para>The GNU autotools detects that the Flex source code has been modified by
35the previous patch, and tries to update the manual page accordingly, but this
36breaks on many systems, and the default page is fine, so make sure it doesn't
37get regenerated:</para>
38
39<screen><userinput>touch doc/flex.1</userinput></screen>
40
41<para>Now prepare Flex for compilation:</para>
42
43<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools</userinput></screen>
44
45<para>Compile the package:</para>
46
47<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
48
49<para>To test the results, issue:
50<userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
51
52<para>Now install the package:</para>
53
54<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
55
56</sect2>
57
58<sect2 role="content"><title/>
59<para>The details on this package are found in <xref linkend="contents-flex"/>.</para>
60</sect2>
61
62</sect1>
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