Re: ylwrap - flex filename weirdness

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Sunday 2010-10-31 16:42, Philip Herron wrote:
>>
>> While trying to utilize Autotools in a preexisting project that
>> previously just relied on Makefiles, I came across ylwrap failing for
>> some absurd, unknown reason. I couldn't help but run sh -x and debug it
>> piecewise.
>>
>> So what's ultimately done is running flex inside a temp directory,
>>
>>        flex /home/jengelh/code/iproute2/tc/emp_ematch_lex.l
>>
>> It turns out flex produces a file called lex.ematch_.c, which is
>> something ylwrap so does not expect at all - it only checks for
>> what's in pairlist="yy.lex.c emp_ematch_lex.c".
>>
>> I can use AM_LFLAGS = -o yy.lex.c to work around it, but that feels like
>> an ugly hack. What's up with flex here?
>
>Ylwrap renames your Lex and Yacc files to their respective <source
>names.{c,h}> So if your lexer was foo.l it would output foo.c not
>lex.yy.c which is what your expecting.

I'm not expecting anything, ylwrap is. For this very rename that
ylwrap is supposed to do, it is expecting to see lex.yy.c or
<source_name>.c from the flex subcommand it calls, but never gets
that.