Re: Problem Building DDD

[Tim Mooney]

In regard to: Re: Problem Building DDD, Andreas Zeller said (at 9:56am on...:

>Hi!
>
>Tim Mooney <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> In regard to: Problem Building DDD, Steven Bernard said (at 4:53pm on Mar...:
>>
>> >            ./configure: flex: command not found [...]
>>
>> The problem is that you have neither lex nor flex installed, and ddd's
>> build process requires one or the other.
>
>Normally, DDD source distributions come with precompiled flex input,
>such that a `flex' or `lex' invocation should not be required.  May I
>ask which version of `make' you are using?

Thanks for the clarification Andreas.  I thought that should be the case --
it wouldn't be required.  However, Steven is never getting to the point
where make is invoked -- this is only during configure.  He's getting
a fatal error from some place in configure, because configure can't
figure out where lex/flex is generating its output.  That's because lex/flex
*aren't* generating any output:

>            checking lex output file root... ./configure: lex: command not 
> found
>            configure: error: cannot find output from lex; giving up
>            configure: error: ./configure failed for ddd

Looking at the configure.in test, I'm puzzled why the

        missing flex

command was not run, to warn that he's missing flex/lex.  Something seems
to not be working as intended.  In any case, it's configure that stopping
him, not a faulty make.

Tim
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