Re: new release?

[Paul Fox]

ralph wrote:
 > Hi Paul,
 > 
 > > At first I was missing "yacc".  Installing either bison or byacc gets
 > > me to this error.
 > 
 > Has configure been re-run since the installation?

Yes -- rerunning configure, rerunning autogen.sh, running make clean; make
all gave the same error.

On a fresh repo, the problem became more apparent, since sbr/dtimep.c
came up missing.  It comes from sbr/dtimep.l, which meant lex/flex was
missing.

I should have checked for that when I realized yacc was missing.  Oh well.

But here's the thing:  when configure doesn't find lex or flex, it
sets the value of the program to ":".  wth?   Wouldn't "false" be
a far more effective substitute?  If there's a way to tell configure
to change that behavior, we should consider it.

Anyway, after installing flex, all is well on Ubuntu 20.

paul
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