Opened 20 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
#773 closed defect (invalid)
Need explanation on libfl.a in chapter 6 flex
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| Component: | Book | Version: | CVS |
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Description
I had a problem when compiling kde 3.2 with flex 2.5.4a. I then looked at the LFS flex compilation, and found, as a side effect, that we link libfl.a with a libl.a library. Is it a spelling error ? If not, saying explicitly that the libl.a is OK and should not be libfl.a would be better I think. As nobody reported any problem with this, I guess the libl.a link is correct.
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This is put in place for older packages that expect to find a "lex" library - since LFS uses the flex program instead of the original "lex", we create the symlink so packages looking for lex can find the library correctly. There's never been any problems directly found because of this link, and it fixes a number of older programs that expect libl.a.