Changeset 73aedd1d for chapter06/flex.xml

Timestamp:

11/01/2003 10:31:50 PM (21 years ago)

Author:

Alex Gronenwoud <alex@…>

Branches:

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Message:

Merging caption and installation sections for all packages in chapters 5 and 6.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3052 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter06/flex.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter06/flex.xml

@@ -8 +8 @@
 &aa-flex-shortdesc;
 &aa-flex-dep;
-&c6-flex-inst;
+
+<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
+
+<sect2>
+<title>Installation of Flex</title>
+
+<para>Prepare Flex for compilation:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>Compile the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
+checks to ensure it built correctly.  Should you choose to run it, the 
+following command will do so:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>make bigcheck</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>And install the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>There are some packages that expect to find the Lex library in
+<filename>/usr/lib</filename>. Create a symlink to account for this:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>ln -s libfl.a /usr/lib/libl.a</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>A few programs don't know about <userinput>flex</userinput> yet and try
+to run its predecessor <userinput>lex</userinput>. To support those programs,
+create a shell script named <filename>lex</filename> that calls
+<userinput>flex</userinput> in Lex emulation mode:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /usr/bin/lex &lt;&lt; "EOF"</userinput>
+#!/bin/sh
+# Begin /usr/bin/lex
+
+exec /usr/bin/flex -l "$@"
+
+# End /usr/bin/lex
+<userinput>EOF
+chmod 755 /usr/bin/lex</userinput></screen>
+
+</sect2>
 
 </sect1>
+