| 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 | ]>
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| 7 |
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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-tools-flex" role="wrap">
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="flex.html"?>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <sect1info condition="script">
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| 12 | <productname>flex</productname>
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| 13 | <productnumber>&flex-version;</productnumber>
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| 14 | <address>&flex-url;</address>
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| 15 | </sect1info>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <title>Flex-&flex-version;</title>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <indexterm zone="ch-tools-flex">
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| 20 | <primary sortas="a-Flex">Flex</primary>
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| 21 | <secondary>tools</secondary>
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| 22 | </indexterm>
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| 23 |
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| 24 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 25 | <title/>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 28 | href="../chapter06/flex.xml"
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| 29 | xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/para[1])"/>
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <segmentedlist>
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| 32 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 33 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | <seglistitem>
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| 36 | <seg>&flex-ch5-sbu;</seg>
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| 37 | <seg>&flex-ch5-du;</seg>
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| 38 | </seglistitem>
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| 39 | </segmentedlist>
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| 40 |
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| 41 | </sect2>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 44 | <title>Installation of Flex</title>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | <para>Flex contains several known bugs. These can be fixed with the
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| 47 | following patch:</para>
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| 48 |
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| 49 | <screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&flex-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
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| 50 |
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| 51 | <para>The GNU autotools will detect that the Flex source code has been
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| 52 | modified by the previous patch and tries to update the man page
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| 53 | accordingly. This does not work on many systems, and the default page is
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| 54 | fine, so make sure it does not get regenerated:</para>
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| 55 |
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| 56 | <screen><userinput remap="pre">touch doc/flex.1</userinput></screen>
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| 57 |
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| 58 | <para>Now prepare Flex for compilation:</para>
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| 59 |
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| 60 | <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/tools</userinput></screen>
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| 61 |
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| 62 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 63 |
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| 64 | <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
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| 65 |
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| 66 | <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
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| 67 |
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| 68 | <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
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| 69 |
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| 70 | <para>Install the package:</para>
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| 71 |
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| 72 | <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
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| 73 |
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| 74 | </sect2>
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| 75 |
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| 76 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 77 | <title/>
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| 78 |
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| 79 | <para>Details on this package are located in
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| 80 | <xref linkend="contents-flex" role="."/></para>
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| 81 |
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| 82 | </sect2>
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| 83 |
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| 84 | </sect1>
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