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authorManuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@linuxfromscratch.org>2006-05-15 17:26:52 +0000
committerManuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@linuxfromscratch.org>2006-05-15 17:26:52 +0000
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
+ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
+ %general-entities;
+]>
+
+<sect1 id="ch-tools-flex" role="wrap">
+ <?dbhtml filename="flex.html"?>
+
+ <title>Flex-&flex-version;</title>
+
+ <indexterm zone="ch-tools-flex">
+ <primary sortas="a-Flex">Flex</primary>
+ <secondary>tools</secondary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+ <sect2 role="package">
+ <title/>
+
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
+ href="../chapter06/flex.xml"
+ xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/para[1])"/>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>&flex-ch5-sbu;</seg>
+ <seg>&flex-ch5-du;</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 role="installation">
+ <title>Installation of Flex</title>
+
+ <para>Flex contains several known bugs. These can be fixed with the
+ following patch:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&flex-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>The GNU autotools will detect that the Flex source code has been
+ modified by the previous patch and tries to update the man page
+ accordingly. This does not work on many systems, and the default page is
+ fine, so make sure it does not get regenerated:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>touch doc/flex.1</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>Now prepare Flex for compilation:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>Compile the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>To test the results, issue:
+ <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
+
+ <para>Install the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 role="content">
+ <title/>
+
+ <para>Details on this package are located in
+ <xref linkend="contents-flex" role="."/></para>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+</sect1>