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| author | Zack Winkles <winkie@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2004-05-03 21:28:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Zack Winkles <winkie@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2004-05-03 21:28:58 +0000 |
| commit | 9dfc02ff38f26117daffe7d8b822ebb64a3fed04 (patch) | |
| tree | c3ea0521973ac75238f6ab5f674d5b4fc4032df8 /chapter06/flex.xml | |
| parent | 411ceb86b8150183a447f89b4789395bf16fddf0 (diff) | |
Current BE-LFS (but w/ GCC 3.3.3) merged -> 6.0 branch
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3445 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06/flex.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/flex.xml | 14 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/flex.xml b/chapter06/flex.xml index 4210a6fc8..34f0fbc1e 100644 --- a/chapter06/flex.xml +++ b/chapter06/flex.xml @@ -23,7 +23,17 @@ GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, M4, Make, Sed.</para> <sect2> <title>Installation of Flex</title> -<para>Prepare Flex for compilation:</para> +<para>Flex contains several known bugs. Fix these with the following patch:</para> + +<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../flex-&flex-version;-debian-fixes-2.patch</userinput></screen> + +<para>The GNU autotools detects that the Flex source code has been modified by the patch, +and tries to update the man pages to include those changes, but this breaks on many +systems, and the default pages are fine, so make sure they don't get renegerated:</para> + +<screen><userinput>touch doc/*.1</userinput></screen> + +<para>Now prepare Flex for compilation:</para> <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen> @@ -32,7 +42,7 @@ GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, M4, Make, Sed.</para> <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen> <para>To test the results, issue: -<userinput>make bigcheck</userinput>.</para> +<userinput>make check</userinput>.</para> <para>Now install the package:</para> |