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1<sect1 id="ch-system-flex" xreflabel="Flex">
2<title>Installing Flex-&flex-version;</title>
3<?dbhtml filename="flex.html" dir="chapter06"?>
4
5<para>The Flex package contains a utility for generating programs that
6recognize patterns in text.</para>
7
8<screen>&buildtime; &flex-time;
9&diskspace; &flex-compsize;</screen>
10
11&aa-flex-down;
12&aa-flex-dep;
13
14<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
15
16<sect2>
17<title>Installation of Flex</title>
18
19<para>Prepare Flex for compilation:</para>
20
21<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
22
23<para>Compile the package:</para>
24
25<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
26
27<para>To have the results tested, issue:
28<userinput>make bigcheck</userinput>.</para>
29
30<para>And install the package:</para>
31
32<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
33
34<para>There are some packages that expect to find the <emphasis>lex</emphasis>
35library in <filename>/usr/lib</filename>. Create a symlink to account for
36this:</para>
37
38<screen><userinput>ln -s libfl.a /usr/lib/libl.a</userinput></screen>
39
40<para>A few programs don't know about <command>flex</command> yet and try
41to run its predecessor <command>lex</command>. To support those programs,
42create a wrapper script named <filename>lex</filename> that calls
43<command>flex</command> in <emphasis>lex</emphasis> emulation mode:</para>
44
45<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /usr/bin/lex &lt;&lt; "EOF"</userinput>
46#!/bin/sh
47# Begin /usr/bin/lex
48
49exec /usr/bin/flex -l "$@"
50
51# End /usr/bin/lex
52<userinput>EOF
53chmod 755 /usr/bin/lex</userinput></screen>
54
55</sect2>
56
57&aa-flex-shortdesc;
58&aa-flex-desc;
59
60</sect1>
61
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