Re: flex 2.5.21 released

[Bruce Lilly]

W. L. Estes wrote:
> On Tuesday, 17 September 2002,12:31 -0400, Bruce Lilly wrote:
>
>
> > Patches to Makefile.am would be ineffective (even if it were
> > clear what would need to be patched) because neither
> > configure nor the config.status that it generates does
> > anything with Makefile.am.
>
>
> Bruce, you're not understanding how flex is built:
>
> 1: automake processes Makefile.am to create Makefile.in.

Not if there *isn't* an automake (and there's not one
included in the .tar.gz flex distribution).

> 2: configure processes Makefile.in to create Makefile

But in the .tar.gz distribution, Makefile.in already
exists and is never modified by configure et al.  The
build process from that distribution is configure ->
make; automake isn't involved.

I can't generate a patch for Makefile.am that uses automake
on *your* system, because I don't have access to it (and
I don't want to have such access).

Never mind.  If it's going to get that complicated,
I'll deal with generating legible documentation locally.