Re: Mandrake 9.1 was shipped with flex-2.5.23, newer is needed

[Heikki Johannes Junes]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Heikki Johannes Junes wrote:

> > /thac
> > ./out-/dev/vc//../../flower/out-/dev/vc//library.a  -lkpathsea
> > -lintl       -lguile -lcrypt -lm
> > c++: ./out-/dev/vc//../../flower/out-/dev/vc//library.a: No such file or
> > directory
> > make[1]: *** [out-/dev/vc//lilypond] Error 1
> > rm out-/dev/vc//lexer.cc out-/dev/vc//parser.cc
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tobbe/rpm/BUILD/lilypond-1.6.9/lily'
>
> For some reason (which I did not need to figure out) this "cerr <<" is not
> a proper syntax, but "std::cerr <<". It looks like a compiler dependent
> problem.
>
> This patch was still included in flex-2.5.31, so maybe you should just
> install a newer flex by building it from source. Looks like the error was
> that Mandrake 9.1 was packed with flex-2.5.23, not newer.

Now I have reproduced the error with gcc 3.2.2 and flex-2.5.31. One needs
to play more with it in order to locate the error.

  Heikki