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authorAlex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-08-31 21:52:02 +0000
committerAlex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-08-31 21:52:02 +0000
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Adding more missing markup, and rewording a few paragraphs.
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<para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
-<para>There are packages which expect to find the lex library
-in the <filename>/usr/lib</filename> directory. Create a symlink
-to account for this:</para>
+<para>There are some packages that expect to find the Lex library in
+<filename>/usr/lib</filename>. Create a symlink to account for this:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>ln -s libfl.a /usr/lib/libl.a</userinput></screen></para>
-<para>Some programs don't know about flex and try to find the lex
-program (flex is a (better) alternative for lex). To please those
-programs, create a shell script named lex which calls flex in
-emulation mode:</para>
+<para>A few programs don't know about <userinput>flex</userinput> yet and try
+to run its predecessor <userinput>lex</userinput>. To support those programs,
+create a shell script named <filename>lex</filename> that calls
+<userinput>flex</userinput> in Lex emulation mode:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>cat &gt; /usr/bin/lex &lt;&lt; "EOF"</userinput>
#!/bin/sh