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1<sect2>
2<title>Installation of Flex</title>
3
4<para>Install Flex by running the following commands:</para>
5
6<para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
7make &amp;&amp;
8make install</userinput></screen></para>
9
10<para>Some programs don't know about flex and try to find the lex program
11(flex is a (better) alternative for lex). So to please those few
12programs out there we'll create a lex script that calls flex and have
13it emulate lex.</para>
14
15<para>Create a new file <filename>/usr/bin/lex</filename> by running the
16following:</para>
17
18<para><screen><userinput>cat &gt; /usr/bin/lex &lt;&lt; "EOF"</userinput>
19#!/bin/sh
20# Begin /usr/bin/lex
21
22exec /usr/bin/flex -l "$@"
23
24# End /usr/bin/lex
25<userinput>EOF
26chmod 755 /usr/bin/lex</userinput></screen></para>
27
28</sect2>
29
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