Re: build trouble on MacOS 10.5 [changeset]

[John W. Eaton]

On 25-Dec-2009, Ben Abbott wrote:

| On Dec 23, 2009, at 10:03 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
| 
| > I found the following thread from the gnulib mailing list that
| > describes the same problem we are having.
| > 
| >  http://old.nabble.com/getopt.h-broken-on-FreeBSD-td25956219.html
| > 
| > A reply in the thread suggests using the %top directive for flex.  I
| > think that is a better solution, so I checked in the following change.
| > 
| >  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/7ad32bf759c3
| > 
| > Does this solve the problem with compiling lex.ll for you?
| 
| Didn't work for me. 
| 
| /bin/sh ../build-aux/ylwrap lex.ll lex.octave_.c lex.cc -- flex -I -I
| "/Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/local_clone/src/lex.ll", line 27: 
unrecognized '%' directive

What version of flex do you have?

It works for me with 2.5.35.  Looking at the NEWS file for flex, it
was apparently added at version 2.5.30, released 2003-4-1.

jwe